Erschienen in:
01.05.2006
From Corrections to Communities as an HIV Priority
verfasst von:
David Vlahov, PhD, Sara Putnam
Erschienen in:
Journal of Urban Health
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Ausgabe 3/2006
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Excerpt
The health of inmates in correctional facilities has been a longstanding concern in the medical community
1 and historically has centered on the health of populations entering correctional settings, which may affect the risk of infectious disease transmission inside these facilities.
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3 Recently, however, more attention has been devoted to public health consequences of inmates released to the community, where continuity of care represents a challenge for treatment and prevention, and there is an increasing appreciation of inmates being part of the public health in the community to which they are released.
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5 In 1983, the first case of AIDS was reported from a prison in the United States.
6 Since that time, nearly 5% of the HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S. have been reported from correctional facilities, although the census for these facilities account for less than 1% of the population.
6 This disproportionate representation of AIDS cases has garnered attention, and AIDS in the correctional setting over the past two decades provides an illustration of the changing and evolving perspectives on health in corrections facilities and also highlights areas where improvements in knowledge and intervention efforts can be made. …
