PHA-Exchange> Call for case studies on health care provision for prisoners and political detainees - Global Health Watch

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 from Bridget Lloyd <bridget at hst.org.za> -----

Call for case studies and human interest stories on health care provision
for prisoners and political detainees.

The Global Health Watch provides an alternative assessment of the gross
inequalities in health worldwide, "watches" the institutions of global
health and development governance, and makes recommendations for new
approaches to some of the most intractable health problems in the world
today. 

We would like to ensure that people's health issues and indigenous health
issues are reflected within the second edition of Global Health Watch, and
would like your assistance and input in writing and sourcing human interest
stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not possible to
integrate stories submitted within chapters, we will put them on the web
site. We would like both positive and negative stories, successes and
failures, etc.

Please forward this request on to others and encourage people to write up
their experiences. The framework for the chapter on health care provision
for prisoners and political detainees is below.

More information on GHW can be found on http://www.ghwatch.org
<http://www.ghwatch.org/> . The full edition of GHW and a shorter advocacy
document Global Health Action can be downloaded from the GHW website.

Please submit case studies to ghw at hst.org.za.  


Call for case studies and human interest stories on health care provision
for prisoners and political detainees


We are looking for case studies and human interest stories to support the
chapter on health care provision and health rights for prisoners and
political detainees. The framework for this chapter includes:

*         An overview of prisoner definition; international laws, resolution
and declaration; 

*         Look at the general state of healthcare; major public health
issues and infectious diseases; sanitation and living conditions; death
penalty; women and child prisoners; responses from the international
community

 
Specific case studies we would be interested in are:

-          Health care rights afforded to prisoners and detainees compared
to the civilian population;

-          TB, HIV and STDs among prison and detention centre populations,
and the importance of prison health care as a broader public health issue.

-          Human rights violations that fuel HIV and TB epidemic (e.g.
denial of anti-retroviral medication to any prison known to be an
intravenous drug abuser such as that proposed in Russia, incarceration in
overcrowded prison cells, sexual abuse and prison rape)

-          Forcibly performing HIV tests on drug abusers.

-          What happens to the sick when they leave prison?

-          Sanitation and living conditions in prison and detention centres.

-          Torture and abuse of prisoners and detainees. 

-          Forced feeding.

-          Psychological warfare and interrogation techniques.

-          The positions and response of the international health community
and civil society towards the issues raised above. 

-          Highlight the judicial and legal processes (that are often
flawed) that may lead to a death sentence being received. 

-          Experiences of women and children in prisons. Health issues and
violations related to women, in particular that of sexual abuse and rape.

-          The response of the civilian community in general and medical
community specifically to these human rights violations and action taken to
change the status quo. 



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