OUTSTANDING CONCERNS

• Risk behaviours continue
  
• High levels of STIs and TB
  
• Lack of drugs at the prison clinics
  
• Issue of terminally ill inmates
  
• Poor hygiene and overcrowding
  
• Insufficient food

FUTURE PRIORITIES
Immediate:

• Source funding for activities
  
• Continue with health promotion
  
• Extend activities to other prisons
  
• Follow-up of terminally ill inmates
  
• Community mobilisation

Long term:

• Develop a comprehensive intervention in liason with the Zambian government

"it is important to recognise that any prison enviroment is greatly influenced by both prison staff and prisoners. Both groups should therefore participate actively in development and applying effective preventive measures, in disseminating relevant information and in avoiding discrimination"

- WHO 1993.

 

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