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CAMBODIA - Overcrowded prisons are breeding ground for TB and HIV

Tuberculosis and HIV rates in Cambodia's largest prison are roughly six and four times the respective national averages. 

Published
04 October 2010
From
Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed
Prisoners
South Carolina prison system braces for federal lawsuit on policy of housing HIV inmates separately

South Carolina prison officials say they have no plans to stop segregating HIV-positive inmates despite the threat of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department.

Published
23 September 2010
From
Los Angeles Times
TB transmission and prevention
Prison overcrowding leading to TB spread in South Africa

Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.

Published
02 September 2010
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AllAfrica
Tattooing linked to higher risk of hepatitis C: UBC study

(University of British Columbia) Youth, prison inmates and individuals with multiple tattoos that cover large parts of their bodies are at higher risk of contracting hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases, according to a University of British Columbia study.

Published
06 August 2010
From
Eurekalert
Prisoners
The HIV and TB Prison Crisis in Southern Africa

In 1988, while Nelson Mandela was in prison, he contracted tuberculosis (TB). TB is common in prisons, with overcrowded cells and poor ventilation facilitating transmission. Mandela is now long free, but TB remains a threat to all prisoners - and to all South Africans.

Published
23 July 2010
From
Human Rights Watch HIV/TB
Prisoners
Penal reform, decriminalisation of illicit drugs, and increased advocacy all central to improving prisoners' health

A panel at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna this week recognised the dire level of health need among prisoners and the slow progress currently being

Published
23 July 2010
By
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Tuberculosis and HIV
Over a third of TB cases in UK prisons are drug-resistant

Many UK prisoners with tuberculosis have a drug-resistant form of the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Published
18 March 2010
By
Michael Carter
Prisoners
Almost 30 percent of HIV-positive New York jail inmates may not know their status

Two new studies in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes call attention to the challenges associated with encouraging inmates in United States jails to

Published
25 January 2010
By
Kelly Safreed-Harmon
HIV treatment
HAART is effective in prisoners, but benefit may be lost upon release

Inmates respond well to anti-HIV therapy during incarceration, but this benefit is often lost after release, according to an American study published in the June

Published
14 June 2004
By
Liz Highleyman
PEP
PEP is feasible in prisons

HIV transmission may be prevented in the prison setting by administering antiretroviral medication to prisoners within three days of needle-sharing with an HIV-positive prisoner, a

Published
03 June 2003
By
Megan Nicholson
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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