Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: HIV/AIDS treatment inside South African correctional centres recently dominated \nheadline discussions. Every country should take measures to ensure good health for all \ncitizens. The right to health is a Constitutional right in South Africa. Although certain \nConstitutional rights may be limited, the right to health should not be exposed to \nlimitations when the interest of society as a whole becomes affected. Therefore, there \ncould be little doubt that the management of HIV/AIDS in correctional settings is more \nimportant today than ever before. During 2003 South African prison authorities admitted \nthat HIV/AIDS in correctional centres is an enormous problem and that the rate of \nprevalence and growth is unknown. The seriousness of the issue was compounded by \novercrowding, poor health facilities and violence. In this article the position of South \nAfrica concerning HIV/AIDS as a particular health care phenomenon is investigated \nagainst the background of developments and actions inside the correctional centres of the \ncountry. Emphasis is be placed on the undeniable link between prison health and public \nhealth, which underpins the need to rethink approaches to HIV/AIDS in correctional \ncentres
Author: Willem Frederik Muller Luyt
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W24337373