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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Call for case studies and human interest stories on health care provision
for prisoners and political detainees<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please forward
this request on to others and encourage people to write up their experiences.
The framework for the chapter on <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>health care provision for prisoners and political detainees</span></i></b>
is below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>More
information on GHW can be found on <a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/">http://www.ghwatch.org</a>.
The full edition of GHW and a shorter advocacy document Global Health Action
can be downloaded from the GHW website.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please submit
case studies to <a href="mailto:ghw@hst.org.za">ghw@hst.org.za</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bridget<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Call for case studies and human interest stories on health care provision
for prisoners and political detainees<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><font size=3 face=Symbol><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>An overview of
prisoner definition; international laws, resolution and declaration; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;
text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><font size=3 face=Symbol><span
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Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Specific case
studies we would be interested in are:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Health care rights
afforded to prisoners and detainees compared to the civilian population;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>TB, HIV and STDs among prison and
detention centre populations, and the importance of prison health care as a
broader public health issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>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)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Forcibly performing HIV tests on
drug abusers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>What happens to the sick when they
leave prison?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Sanitation and living conditions
in prison and detention <span lang=EN-GB>centres</span>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Torture and abuse of prisoners and
detainees. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Forced feeding.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Psychological warfare and interrogation
techniques.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>The positions and response of the
international health community and civil society towards the issues raised
above. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Highlight the judicial and legal
processes (that are often flawed) that may lead to a death sentence being
received. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>Experiences of women and children
in prisons. Health issues and violations related to women, in particular that
of sexual abuse and rape.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bridget Lloyd<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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