International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 12 Issue 1

Hepatitis C in Australian prisons: a national needs assessment

Michael Mokhlis Mina, Lilie Herawati, Tony Butler, Andrew Lloyd

Hepatitis C (HCV) infections are prevalent in custodial settings worldwide, yet provision of antiviral therapies is uncommon. Approximately 30,000 prisoners are held in Australian…

Routine or targeted HIV screening of Indonesian prisoners

Erni Juwita Nelwan, Ahmad Isa, Bachti Alisjahbana, Nurlita Triani, Iqbal Djamaris, Ilham Djaja, Herdiman T Pohan, Prisca Zwanikken, Reinout van Crevel, Andre van der Ven, Andre Meheus

Routine HIV screening of prisoners is generally recommended, but rarely implemented in low-resource settings. Targeted screening can be used as an alternative. Both strategies may…

Injecting drug use, sexual risk, HIV knowledge and harm reduction uptake in a large prison in Bali, Indonesia

Anak Agung Sagung Sawitri, Anak Agung Gede Hartawan, Noel Craine, Ayu Kartika Sari, Ni Wayan Septarini, Dewa Nyoman Wirawan

– The purpose of this paper is to describe HIV-related risk behavior and knowledge of HIV among inmates of Kerobokan prison Bali, Indonesia.

Self-harm and overcrowding among prisoners in Geneva, Switzerland

Hans Wolff, Alejandra Casillas, Thomas Perneger, Patrick Heller, Diane Golay, Elisabeth Mouton, Patrick Bodenmann, Laurent Getaz

Prison institutional conditions affect risk for self-harm among detainees. In particular, prison overcrowding may increase the likelihood of self-harm by creating competition for…

Prisons as a source of tuberculosis in Russia

Anya Sarang, Lucy Platt, Inna Vyshemirskaya, Tim Rhodes

The purpose of this paper is to analyze poor management of tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment and explore parameters and causes of this problem drawing on qualitative…

A rapid systematic review of what we know about alcohol use disorders and brief interventions in the criminal justice system

Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Ruth McGovern, Jennifer Birch, Gillian O'Neill, Hannah Kaner, Arun Sondhi, Kieran Lynch

The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence of alcohol use disorders within the different stages of the criminal justice system in the UK. Furthermore it reviewed the…

Editorial

Morag MacDonald, Robert Greifinger, Scott A. Allen, David Kane