HIV/AIDS is still a double sentence in prisons [6]

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7533, 2006, Pages 119-120

  Simooya, Oscar Ozmund ^a   Sanjobo, Nawa ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TATTOO; UNITED NATIONS; ZAMBIA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; PRISONS; RISK-TAKING; ZAMBIA;

EID: 30744431888     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.119-b     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. Sidley P. Prisoner with AIDS released to die at home. BMJ 2005;331:1246. (17 December.)
2. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Prisons and AIDS: UNAIDS point of view. Geneva: UNAIDS, 1997.
3. Commissioner of Prisons. Speech to HIV/AIDS workshop on home based care, Kamfinsa Prison, Kitwe, Zambia, 21 March 2005.
4. Simooya OO, Sanjobo N, Sijumbila G, Kaetano L, Musonda R, Mukonze F, et al. "Behind walls": a study of HIV risk behaviours and seroprevalance in prisons in Zambia. AIDS 2001;15:1741-4.