HIV/AIDS in correctional settings: a salient priority for the CDC and HRSA

• Published in: AIDS education and prevention Vol. 14; no. 5 Suppl B; pp. 103 - 113
• Main Authors: Rapposelli, Karina Krane, Kennedy, May G, Miles, John R, Tinsley, Melinda J, Rauch, Kathryn J, Austin, Lynn, Dooley, Samuel, Aranda-Naranjo, Barbara, Moore, Richard A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Guilford Press 01.10.2002
• Subjects: 923120; 923130; Access to Health Care; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); AIDS; AIDS/HIV; At Risk Persons; Behavior Change; CDC; Centers for Disease Control; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) - organization & administration; Communicable Diseases; Community Relations; Community Services; Cooperative Behavior; Correctional Institutions; Disease Control; Drug Therapy; Ethnic Groups; Government Agencies; Health Care Services; Health Priorities; Health Promotion - organization & administration; Health Resources & Services Administration; Health Services Accessibility; HIV; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - therapy; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Institutionalized Persons; Intervention; Medical Services; Organizational Objectives; Policy Making; Population Surveillance; Prevention; Primary Prevention - organization & administration; Prisons; Public Health; Referral; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; United States - epidemiology; United States Health Resources and Services Administration - organization & administration; United States
• ISSN: 0899-9546; 1943-2755
• DOI: 10.1521/aeap.14.7.103.23861

Correctional facilities constitute an excellent opportunity to provide treatment, care, and prevention services for a population that may not otherwise access these services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recognize the public health importance of correctional settings and have begun to develop formal strategies to address the HIV/AIDS-relevant needs of incarcerated individuals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and HRSA have implemented policies, activities, and strategic plans to reduce the HIV/AIDS disease burden among the high-risk populations that pass through the nation's prisons and jails. They have also collaborated to address the HIV/AIDS needs of incarcerated populations and have initiated processes for expanding collaboration on these issues to include other federal agencies and prevention partners.