Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
Guidelines
Key Populations
2016 Update
Key population
Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr...esent important opportunities to promote health and risk reduction that need to be tapped.
Some recommended remedies:
Health ministries, not ministries of justice, should manage health care responsibilities
Ensure that testing is available, but not mandatory, for infectious diseases
Make prison health part of the broader public health agenda
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Emerging Infectious Diseases; Vol. 21, No. 11, November 2015
Lack of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Sudan’s Rebel-Held Southern Kordofan