Showing 200 news articles about Prisoners

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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.

Discrimination & the law

US Jail to Pay $27,500 to Inmate Who Was Isolated for Having HIV

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Poz
3 April 2018
Prisoners

Blood-borne viruses in prison: guidelines launched for prevention, testing and treatment

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NAT
11 December 2017
Prisoners

In Prison, Women Are 9 Times More Likely to Be HIV-Positive

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The Nation
28 November 2017
Prisoners

US: State and Federal Prisons See a Drastic Drop in HIV Rates

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HIV Plus
4 September 2017
Hepatitis C treatment

Substantial fall in Hepatitis C rates in Canberra's jail with new treatments

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The Canberra Times
31 July 2017
TB treatment

WHO issues ethics guidance to protect rights of TB patients

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World Health Organization
23 March 2017
TB epidemiology

Tuberculosis deaths fall in Europe

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Reuters
21 March 2017
Prisoners

‘Significant success’ in reducing TB and HIV/Aids in SA’s prisons

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Medical Brief
16 March 2017
Economic & social inequality

Researchers examine how drug policy impacts HIV vulnerability among African-Americans

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EurekAlert
21 November 2016
Prisoners

How Does Incarceration Impact the Spread of HIV?

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TheBody.com
11 October 2016
Prisoners

Prisoners pose biggest risk for HIV infection rates in the EECA

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University of Bristol
26 July 2016
Prisoners

South Africa: All HIV Positive Inmates to Receive Treatment

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AllAfrica
22 July 2016
Access to healthcare

AIDS 2016 focuses on impact of legal and policy barriers to HIV services for groups at greatest risk of infection

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AIDS 2016
18 July 2016
Prisoners

The Lancet: Mass imprisonment of drug users driving global epidemics of HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis

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EurekAlert
17 July 2016
Prisoners

Mass incarceration of drug users in South Africa 'driving global epidemics'

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Daily Mail
15 July 2016
Prisoners

Louisiana prisons' failure to treat HIV could violate human rights, report says

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The Guardian
2 April 2016
PrEP

HIV Mystery: Solved?

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The Nation
1 March 2016
Prisoners

New Report and Monitoring Tool: HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction in Prisons

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Harm Reduction International
10 February 2016
Economic & social inequality

Cutting prison sentences could reduce spread of HIV, study suggests

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EurekAlert
9 February 2016
Harm reduction

Prison needle programs touted to reduce HIV and Hep C

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Toronto Star
3 February 2016
TB treatment

Unlikely perk of prison life: Free, speedy TB treatment

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Mail & Guardian
12 January 2016
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Hepatitis C prevention, control efforts should focus on incarcerated individuals

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EurekAlert (press release)
17 December 2015
Prisoners

Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of AIDS?

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New York Times
15 December 2015
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Hepatitis C screening of prison inmates would benefit wider community, be cost-effective

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
24 November 2015