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Interventions are needed to ensure that prisoners have ongoing access to HIV treatment and care. Studies found that prisoners lacked access to ARVs, or for those who accessed ARVs, faced the dangers of interrupted treatment due to prison transfers.
Provision and Access
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Interventions are needed to prevent sexual violence in prison settings.
Women Prisoners and Female Partners of Male Prisoners
1 study
Interventions are needed to provide prisoners with prevention information and condoms for at least conjugal visits. A study found that prisoners did not have basic information on how condom use reduces likelihood of HIV transmission.
Women Prisoners and Female Partners of Male Prisoners
1 study
Pregnant female prisoners who are living with HIV need access to HIV treatment and care for themselves and to prevent of vertical transmission.
Women Prisoners and Female Partners of Male Prisoners
1 study
Access to antiretroviral treatment (and minimization of treatment interruption for those with access) is needed in prisons. Screening and treatment for TB is needed in prison settings as well. A study found that while one in three participants in HIV services has been in prison, officials report that antiretroviral therapy was available to fewer than one in ten of over 6,000 people with HIV incarcerated in 2009.
Women Prisoners and Female Partners of Male Prisoners
1 study
Stemming the rate of incarceration may reduce HIV transmission. Studies found that promoting alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders might reduce HIV transmission.
Women Prisoners and Female Partners of Male Prisoners
1 study
Efforts are needed to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide PWID with HIV prevention and testing services and effective drug dependency treatment by medical professionals. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the form criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal and those detained do not allow people to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that women who use drugs were not given reproductive health services, including PMTCT services in compulsory detention and/or prison settings. Detoxification programs were substandard and ineffective. Despite high rates of HIV, antiretroviral treatment is largely unavailable in compulsory drug detention centers. One study found high rates of injecting drug use within prison and high rates of syringe sharing within prisons plus incarceration was not associated with reduction in drug use, with over a quarter of these female drug users. PWID in and out of prison who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment with access to medical supervision. Treatment in compulsory drug detention takes the form of sanction rather than therapy, with high relapse rates.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
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Efforts are needed to reform laws that criminalize drug use and/or drug possession for personal use and to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide people who use drugs with access to HIV and health services, including harm reduction, and voluntary, effective evidence-based drug dependency treatment. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the formal criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal; those detained are not allowed to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that female IDU were not given reproductive health services, including PMTCT services in compulsory detention and/or prison settings. Detoxification programs were substandard and ineffective. Despite high rates of HIV, antiretroviral treatment is largely unavailable in compulsory drug detention centers. IDUs who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment in prison with access to medical supervision. [See also %{s:11}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
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Interventions to increase the knowledge of people living with HIV — especially women — regarding their rights and provision of resources for them to access and claim these rights need to be scaled up. Studies found that women had insufficient knowledge of their legal rights and no resources to claim their legal rights.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study