Turning the tide: Not without prisons! Promoting comprehensive national HIV responses

1. Turning the tide: Not without prisons! Promoting comprehensive national HIV responses

2. Turning the HIV tide for people in prisons • 30 million people incarcerated each year • HIV prevalence always higher in prison than in the community up- to 50 times (Mauritius) • HIV prevalence in women prisons almost always higher than in men prisons. • 50-80% of deaths in prisons reported to be due to TB (HIV) • The proportion of injecting drug users/ drug dependant people among the prison population can be very high up to 50% • High risk work environment for staff especially for TB and also for HIV

3. Prison management Public Health Human rights Criminal Justice Occupational Health Gender policies Turning the HIV tide for people in prisons HIV in prisons is multi factorial issue requiring a multidisciplinary response

4. Turning the HIV tide for people in prisons

5. Comprehensive package of interventions For people incarcerated and for people who work in prisons Information, education and communication HIV testing and counselling Treatment, care and support Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV Condom programmes Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections Prevention of sexual violence Drug dependence treatment Needle and syringe programmes Vaccination, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis Post-exposure prophylaxis Prevention of transmission through medical or dental services Prevention of transmission through tattooing, piercing and other forms of skin penetration 15. Protecting staff from occupational hazards ADVANCE COPY

6. Comprehensive package of interventions For people incarcerated and for people who work in prisons A Joint publication of: With the contribution of