MacGregor (19) /Times Higher Education Supplement/2003/Zambia |
Case report* |
Report about the project “In But Free: Prevenção de AIDS nas Prisões”, which aims to promote HIV/AIDS prevention in prisons, using both inmates and officers as key agents. |
Not applicable |
Not applicable |
|
Todrys et al. (20) /Journal of the International AIDS Society/2011/Zambia |
Mixed method |
Better understand the relationship between prison conditions, criminal justice rights and HIV and tuberculosis prevention, treatment and care in Zambia. |
Prisoners (n=246)/Correctional officers (n=31) |
Interviews |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- ensure methods of preventing HIV transmission in prisons;
-
- control access to care.
-
Negative aspects: they are not qualified and trained to assess and determine if medical consultations are necessary.
|
Topp et al. (21)/ Health Policy and Planning/2016/Zambia |
Qualitative |
Explore and describe the institutional and social dynamics that influence prisoner health and access to health care in Zambia. |
111 interviews (79 prisoners and 32 with correctional officers) |
Semi-structured interview |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- choose the cell’s captain, who, together with officers, controlled prisoners’ access to health services;
-
- encourage the planning of HIV clinic visits and drug replacement;
-
- monitor the prison inmates to any external public health center or hospital.
-
Negative points:
-
- bribery within prisons to access services.
|
Godin et al. (22) /Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review/2001/Canada |
Qualitative |
Identify the factors that influence correctional officers to agree or refuse to make available the tools needed to prevent HIV transmission among prisoners. |
957 officers |
Questionnaire (does not show details) |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- distribute preventive measures necessary to prevent HIV transmission in prisons (condoms, tattoo equipment and sterile syringes).
-
Positive points:
-
- Women, singles, people working in federal institutions and people working in women’s prisons are more in favor of distributing such measures.
-
Negative points:
-
- only 21.4% are in favor of playing this role. People who have undergone HIV training and have been exposed to the risk of HIV infection are more opposed.
-
- officers do not consider themselves as “preventive agents” and suffer social pressure not to exercise this function.
|
Van Der Meulen et al. (23) /Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/2018/Canada |
Qualitative |
Build a dialogue with the Canadian Correctional Service regarding prison data reduction measures – Prison Needle and Syringe Programs (PNSP). |
30 healthcare professionals who care for prisoners and 10 former prisoners |
Interviews and focus groups (did not explain the instrument used) |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- work to reduce damage in prisons;
-
- carry out actions to promote the health of prisoners and prevent disease transmission.
-
-
Negative points: - are resistant and constitute an important barrier to the implementation of harm reduction programs, opposing the administration or support of such programs.
-
Positive points:
-
- are frontline workers in the prison setting and maintain frequent and direct contact with prisoners.
|
Mitchell et al. (24) /AIDS education and prevention/2015/United States |
Qualitative |
Better understand the organizational characteristics and processes that lead to successful and unsuccessful implementation of HIV services and treatment in the prison system from the perspective of different and key stakeholders. |
17 interviews with Senior Researchers and Executive Sponsors (one from each category and unit - there were 9 units) |
Semi-structured interview |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- allow inmates access to HIV prevention group interventions. Negative points:
-
- lack of cooperation and back-up from key actors has become a challenge for the successful implementation of HIV services in the prison system.
-
Positive aspects: by the end of the project, the officers overcame these communication barriers and also met allies who could help in subsequent work
|
Antonius (25) /AIDS Health Promotion Exchange/1994/Suriname |
Case report* |
Describe the HIV/AIDS education and support program involving activities for prisoners and COs, using the training of peer educators as a strategy. |
Not applicable |
Not applicable |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- receive training on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS;
-
- act as facilitators of educational sessions on HIV/AIDS that were held in the prison unit;
-
- participate in the selection and evaluation of educational videos on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections to be presented monthly to inmates.
-
Negative aspects: officers were uncooperative and some were inadequate as educators.
|
Łukaszek (26) /HIV AIDS Rev/2019/Poland |
Descriptive |
Define the epidemiological situation on HIV infections in Polish prisons, show the magnitude of risky sexual behavior in prisoners’ lives, which could and still can cause virus infections, show the opinions of COs on the problem of HIV infections. HIV among prisoners (the magnitude of the problem and the Prison Service’s role in HIV prevention). |
485 men serving prison terms and 210 Prison Service officers |
Self-administered questionnaire prepared by the author - conducted a pilot study before |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- provide condoms to prisoners; however, 87.1% of them thought the execution of such action was inadequate and 66% did not even agree with the purchase, 10% said inmates could buy condoms and only 6.7% agreed to give them away for free;
-
- provide sex education for prisoners; however, only 55.7% of respondents chose to carry out these guidelines and only 16.7% of professionals were strongly convinced of its need.
|
Mhlanga-Gunda et al. (27) /Int J Prison Health/2020/Zimbabwe |
Qualitative |
Investigate the current health inequalities of female prisoners and better understand their prison health experiences, continuity of health care in prisons, and in particular, HIV prevention, treatment, support and care in Zimbabwean prisons. |
13 key informants for the interviews; 24 female inmates and 24 prison service professionals for the focus groups (each group had six participants) |
Structured guides for key informant interviews and focus group discussions |
-
Officers’ role:
-
- provide information on health education;
-
- act in the access of incarcerated women to primary health care, including access to HIV services.
|