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News and information about HIV in prisoners, jails and other correctional facilities. Limited access to condoms, sterile injecting equipment and medical care facilitate HIV transmission in prison. Poor quality health care worsens HIV outcomes of HIV-positive people during incarceration.

Retention in HIV care drops after release from incarceration

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EurekAlert (press release)
10 October 2018

A Day in the Life: Physician Cares for HIV-Positive Patients in Jail

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Journal of the American Medical Association
31 May 2018

Canada reveals needle exchange programme in prisons

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The Lancet (requires free registration)
25 May 2018

WHO issues ethics guidance to protect rights of TB patients

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World Health Organization
23 March 2017

Tuberculosis deaths fall in Europe

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Reuters
21 March 2017

How Does Incarceration Impact the Spread of HIV?

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TheBody.com
11 October 2016

Prisoners pose biggest risk for HIV infection rates in the EECA

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University of Bristol
26 July 2016