The United Nations has just released a policy brief on HIV prevention, treatment and care in prisons and other closed settings.
The document highlights two guiding principles:
1. Prison health is a part of public health; and,
2. Human Rights approach and principle of equivalence of health in prisons.
Below is a list of 15 essentials of a comprehensive package of HIV prevention, treatment and care. For more details read the policy brief – UN Prisons HIV Policy Brief 2013.
The comprehensive package:
15 key interventions
- Information, education and communication
- Condom programmes
- Prevention of sexual violence
- Drug dependence treatment, including opioid substitution therapy
- Needle and syringe programmes
- Prevention of transmission through medical or dental services
- Prevention of transmission through tattooing, piercing and other forms of skin penetration
- Post-exposure prophylaxis
- HIV testing and counselling
- HIV treatment, care and support
- Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
- Vaccination, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis
- Protecting staff from occupational hazards
by law some with hiv do not have to tell any one they have it . but they sould use glove. as bing a firefighter and emt when i have to work on some they do not have to tell me they have it so and it very very had to get from some one from ever day tighns. if you want to know more one sould look on the web or talk with your dc about hiv and we sould not put some down for having it keep then from geting a job.
There is no reason a pesron with HIV couldn’t work preparing food. HIV is not passed on through food. She should not work if she is suffering any diarrhoeal diseases, though, the same as anyone else.As for the gloves issue, there are some situations where people preparing food ought to wear gloves, particularly if they are handling money. But HIV is not a problem here: your colleague should take the same precautions as everyone else.