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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Prisoners

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.

Prisoners

MOZAMBIQUE: AIDS Kills 200 Prisoners in Mozambican Jails in 2012–Report

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CDC National Prevention Information Network
21 June 2013
Prisoners

South Africa: HIV convicts freed to die

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Times Live
18 June 2013
Prisoners

South Africa: Prisons lack proper HIV/Aids care

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Enca
17 June 2013
People who inject drugs

'War on drugs' fuelling the hepatitis C epidemic among people who inject drugs

News
29 May 2013
Prisoners

Zimbabwe: HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwe's New Constitutional Court

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AllAfrica
24 May 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Higher rates of HIV in US black gay men may be due to smaller choice of partners and more age mixing

News
18 May 2013
Prisoners

Zimbabwe: HIV Wreaks Havoc in Prisons

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All Africa
13 May 2013
Prisoners

Sex in prisons: Campaigners warn of culture of denial over sexual relationships between inmates as new commission publishes report

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The Independent
7 May 2013
Prisoners

Defusing Scotland's HIV prison timebomb

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Herald Scotland
11 March 2013
Drug-resistant TB

Ukraine: Curbing the MDR-TB Epidemic in Prisons

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Doctors Without Borders
10 March 2013
Prisoners

Give needles, condoms to inmates to curb HIV, experts urge

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Medical Xpress
1 March 2013
Prisoners

US: HIV-Positive Inmates Too Expensive for Private Prison Operators?

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CounterPunch
20 February 2013
Prisoners

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Prisoners Denied HIV-Aids Medication in Botswana

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AllAfrica
13 January 2013
Prisoners

Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With HIV

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New York Times
3 January 2013
Prisoners

Two HIV-positive men take on Zambia government over prison conditions

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The Guardian
6 December 2012
Prisoners

GMHC Releases HIV Policy Recommendations for Prisons

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Poz magazine news
3 December 2012
Prisoners

Alabama's prison HIV segregation policy due for justice

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The Guardian
22 November 2012
Prisoners

HIV-Positive Inmates Kept Isolated in Some Parts of U.S

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Care2.com (blog)
22 November 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Jail Nurse Blabbed About Inmate's HIV, Says Lawsuit Against Sheriff

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Patch
20 November 2012
Prisoners

Alabama: Ruling Soon on Isolation of Inmates With HIV

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New York Times
19 November 2012
Prisoners

Inmates with HIV Often Stop Care After Release

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MedPage Today
23 October 2012
Hepatitis C treatment

Treatment of hepatitis C can be successful in a prison population

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News-Medical.net
9 October 2012
Prisoners

HIV-positive Dubai prisoners' plea for freedom

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The National
27 September 2012
Prisoners

Prison inmate takes Canada to court over access to clean needles

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Globe and Mail
25 September 2012