Prisons
Over nine million people are incarcerated in penal institutions worldwide. High rates of HIV and other infectious diseases in prisons can lead to alarmingly high rates of mortality among prisoners. Negative public attitudes towards people in detention act as a barrier to objective and pragmatic discussions of prison health policy.
Prison drug using situations - how and when to intervene?
Drug using inmates regularly might run into situations whereother inmates are talking about injecting drugs. They can usethese situations to inform these inmates about safer behaviour.However, it is a question of careful timing to raise the issue ofproper and safer injecting. In this exercise, we try to find out whata third person (a friend or inmate, for example) can do to improveinjecting technique. By means of discussion and practical exercises,several situations regarding good injecting technique arereviewed
Public health guidance on prevention and control of communicable diseases in prison
Presentation for training people working with prisoners
Standards for the treatment of drug use disorders
Presentation for training people working with prisoners
The bleach procedure
Instructions on how to use bleach procedure for disinfection for penal institutions
The instruction how to self-injected.
The short instruction on how to safety self-injecting for penal institutions
The instruction how to use condom
Short instructions on how to use condoms for penal institutions
The Luxembourg paper on PNSP
It is the contentment of 20 requirements which could help to implement a Prison Needle and Syringe Exchange Program (PNSP)
