Prisoners, HIV and AIDS

The inability to use needle sharing, condoms and rape for drug use is a sustained problem in the prison environment, which increases the risk of HIV infection

The lack of HIV prevention and reduction programs increases the risk of HIV infection among prisoners

For prisoners infected with HIV, compliance with anti-retroviral therapy is often difficult and the daily stress in the prison affects already weakened immune systems, resulting in poor health and risk of co-infection .

Reconsidering the number of people imprisoned with barriers to the use of therapeutic substances will reduce the spread of HIV and improve life.

Browse this page and learn more about prevention, treatment and support of prisoners and prisoners facing HIV risk, and future directions.

The Ghana project is recruiting literate prisoners with outstanding communication skills and can be kept secret as a colleague educator. Peer Educator receives five days of HIV prevention, stigma and discrimination, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual and gender violence, and skill training. They do film meetings and dramatic performances on AIDS related issues and distribute teaching materials. We also provide confidential HTC, referral treatment and support services 80. In 2014, this program worked on about 220,000 prisoners and 248 prison officials through an advocacy session. Approximately 30,000 inmates received HIV testing of HTC, 228 of them were positive and were introduced for treatment 81

The population is infected with HIV 37. In 2002, there were about 22,317 national prisoners of HIV or AIDS. Among them, the Texas Prison System reported 2,528 people. It accounts for 2% of the total prison system (country and Texas). In addition, the infection rate remained relatively stable since 1995 and there were 24,256 such cases. Nevertheless, after "nature's cause", AIDS is the main cause of prisoner's death. The report was unable to judge to what extent these prisoners were infected before being imprisoned, nor imprisoned by mutual consent or compulsion. According to the monthly health report submitted by the Texas State Criminal Justice Department, about 48% of prisoners diagnosed with HIV or AIDS are infected with a virus using intravenous medication. Run away from the thief to stop sex slaves 36: Testimony of prisoners. (October 19, 1997), New York Times, verse 4, page 7. December 159 - 171, 2000, Joy James, ed

Since 1993, the WHO has issued a series of important documents on HIV / AIDS in prison. These include prisons, drugs, society, Moscow declaration, policy manuals to reduce HIV infection in prisons, and recently documents on prisons, drugs, harm reduction (22-25). All of them are very important, highlighting HIV / AIDS problems in prisons and providing tools for national policy changes to supporters and NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

In many countries, the efforts of people living with NGOs, medical professionals, HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) are important to advance national prison health policy. Their work includes not only encouraging the government but also providing HIV / AIDS services directly to prisoners. HIV / AIDS is also increasingly seen as a problem by prisoners' rights NGOs seeking to improve the HIV / AIDS program. International organizations such as the International Criminal Law Reform and the International Prison Research Center and domestic NGOs such as the Irish Penal Code Reform Reform Trust have played an important role in promoting access to prisoners' HIV / AIDS services. Perhaps the most important private sector cooperation test in recent years is Dublin's HIV / AIDS declaration (26) in 2004 in prisons in Europe and Central Asia, the call for action against international HIV / AIDS in prison is 25 It is obtained from the country. More than 90 NGOs and experts