Global HIV Strategic Information Working Group
For Populations At Risk For HIV
Рекомендации с позиций общественного здравоохранения
Пересмотренное издание
Программа по ВИЧ/СПИДу
ПРактИЧеское РукоВодстВо для соВместных меРоПРИятИй.
Technical Brief
Damon Barrett, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Martiani Oktavia, Jeanette Olsson, Mira Schneiders and Kate Welch provided background papers and literature reviews which informed this technical series.
Practical Guidance for collaborative interventions
Putting Asia’s HIV response back on track
Guidelines
June 2017
HIV strategic information for impact
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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An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017