Disease Control

Morehouse School of Medicine identifies tie between prison health and health of public

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 5th, 2007

Untreated or overlooked illnesses in a prison population can expose whole communities to the risk of infection from a contagious disease, reports the latest brief released by Community Voices, a national initiative to increase access to care, located at the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine: titled "Prison Health and the Health of the Public: Ties that Bind."

Of the estimated 2.2 million men and women incarcerated in prisons and jails, many suffer with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and tuberculosis, as well as chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma. Even more suffer from undiagnosed or untreated mental illness. Many correlate the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-02-05)

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