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Strengthening Community responses to HIv Treatment and Prevention
Recommended actions at international and national levels
UNAIDS 2018 / Guidance
Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV
Policy
July 2012
Working Paper No. 3
Accountability for the global health sector strategies, 2016–2021
WHO/CDS/HIV/19.7
Policy Brief
Accessed: 20.11.2019
UNAIDS | 2016–2021 Strategy
Accessed: 20.11.2019
Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr...esent important opportunities to promote health and risk reduction that need to be tapped.
Some recommended remedies:
Health ministries, not ministries of justice, should manage health care responsibilities
Ensure that testing is available, but not mandatory, for infectious diseases
Make prison health part of the broader public health agenda
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Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean