HIV risk reduction and service delivery strategies in criminal justice settings

摘要: Because of the HIV risk behaviors substance abusers, particularly injection drug users and those who exchange sex for drugs, large numbers are already infected with or showing symptoms AIDS, significant service delivery issues associated their criminal justice processing. Many strategies have been implemented in correctional settings an effort to prevent control transmission HIV. A number these purpose lowering institutions, whereas others structured sake offering prevention/intervention inmates before they return free community. As such, prisons jails represent opportune prevention education. The most common control/prevention/education include mandatory testing HIV, segregating from general prison population, establishing special health care units positive AIDS symptomatic inmates, reduction programs, granting medical parole terminally ill. abuse treatment results substantial declines use heroin, cocaine, other per se can play a role reducing spread among coming attention system. Most promising continuous integrated services that tied stages supervision: primary while incarcerated; secondary on work release, halfway house community supervision; and, tertiary ongoing aftercare.