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Inside methodologies: for counting blood-borne viruses and injector-inmates' behavioural risks - Results from European prisons (2002)
(Des méthodologies à la source : pour compter les virus sanguins et les comportements à risque des détenus injecteurs - Résultats de prisons européennes)
Auteur(s) :
BIRD, S. M. ;
ROTILY, M.
Année :
2002
Page(s) :
123-136
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
30
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAL (Maladies infectieuses / Infectious diseases)
Thésaurus mots-clés
ANTICORPS
;
PRISON
;
METHODE
;
INJECTION
;
VIRUS
;
INFECTION
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
VIH
;
HEPATITE
;
SEXE MASCULIN
;
SALIVE
;
JUSTICE
Thésaurus géographique
EUROPE
;
ROYAUME-UNI
;
FRANCE
Note générale :
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 2002, 41, (2), 123-136
Résumé :
A resume, with key European results, is given of Willing Anonymous Salivary HIV/Hepatitis C (WASH-C) surveillance studies for estimating HIV and Hepatitis C prevalence among prisoners, and associated risk behaviours. The WASH methodology was acceptable to prisoners, with participation rates of 75% to 88% in EC Network, UK and Irish prison studies; one-third of nearly 9,000 male participant adult prisoners had a history of injection drug use, half of whom reported having injected inside prison. Half of the injector-inmates were Hepatitis C antibody positive in saliva (1,157/2,246). We then set out four other methodologies for future international application inside prisons. All four have been designed to safeguard prisoner and medical confidentiality and to avoid deductive disclosure about participant prisoners. They are: database linkage, for example to enable follow-up of drugs-related deaths soon after release from prison; randomised controlled trials in criminal justice, for example to determine whether drug treatment and testing orders are preferable (in terms of recidivism, morbidity and mortality) to incarceration for drug-dependent offenders; a new WASH methodology for quantifying Hepatitis C and injector incidence among young offenders; and audit, for example to monitor prisoners' uptake of short-course Hepatitis B immunisation. (Author's abstract)
Affiliation :
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom.
Cote :
A02473