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Doctors will go to prisons to treat HIV-infected prisoners and hepatitis B and C. Screening will be done at the entrance, during and after the confinement according to the protocols signed on Monday.
The Directorate General of Reintegration and Penitentiary Services (DGRSP) and 28 National Health Service (NHS) hospitals will sign protocols for the treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and HIV / AIDS. Viral hepatitis According to the DGRSP, these protocols "are shaping a new approach to health care for infectious diseases in prisons."
This new model will allow doctors – infectious, gastroenterological, and internist – to relocate to prisons to care for the HIV-infected prison population, hepatitis B and C of 45 of the continent's prisons.
The DGRSP
The fight against HIV infections and viral hepatitis B and C is a priority public health problem worldwide.
In Portugal, according to the most recent data published by MJ, 4.5% of the prison population is infected with HIV, 1.2% have hepatitis B and 10.1% have HIV. Hepatitis C
The purpose of these protocols is "extremely relevant and innovative", taking into account that for the first time it will be possible to achieve the goals set by the World Health Organization. Health, especially the treatment of all HIV-infected prisoners. the elimination of hepatitis C in prisons by 2020, notes a note from the DGRSP
The DGRSP also points out that prisoners in prisons who have been subjected to security procedures during the trip
The realization of these specialized consultations in the prisons places on the proximity and allows to rationalize the time and "the use of the means". The protocols will be signed at Lisbon Prison at the ceremony "Eliminating Hepatitis C in prisons by 2020", which will be attended by the Minister of Justice, Francisca Van Dunem, and the Minister of Justice. Health, Adalberto Campos Fernandes
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