Gender Inequality, Health Rights, and HIV/AIDS among Women Prisoners in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has successfully reduced its HIV prevalence rate and AIDS-related deaths in recent years, but women, particularly those who are in prison, remain at high risk. Poor prison conditions, discrimination, stigma, and the neglect of the sexual and reproductive health of women prisoners living wit...

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Autores principales: Pillay, Nirmala, Chimbga, Dzimbabwe, Van Hout, Marie Claire
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Harvard University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194215
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description Zimbabwe has successfully reduced its HIV prevalence rate and AIDS-related deaths in recent years, but women, particularly those who are in prison, remain at high risk. Poor prison conditions, discrimination, stigma, and the neglect of the sexual and reproductive health of women prisoners living with HIV result in poor health outcomes for women prisoners. Inadequate and inappropriate health provision in prison is a breach of their human rights and a public health problem. This paper analyzes the political commitment of Zimbabwe to address the underlying determinants of health by incorporating into its health laws and policies measures that promote the health rights of women prisoners living with HIV.
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spelling pubmed-82330082021-06-29 Gender Inequality, Health Rights, and HIV/AIDS among Women Prisoners in Zimbabwe Pillay, Nirmala Chimbga, Dzimbabwe Van Hout, Marie Claire Health Hum Rights Research-Article Zimbabwe has successfully reduced its HIV prevalence rate and AIDS-related deaths in recent years, but women, particularly those who are in prison, remain at high risk. Poor prison conditions, discrimination, stigma, and the neglect of the sexual and reproductive health of women prisoners living with HIV result in poor health outcomes for women prisoners. Inadequate and inappropriate health provision in prison is a breach of their human rights and a public health problem. This paper analyzes the political commitment of Zimbabwe to address the underlying determinants of health by incorporating into its health laws and policies measures that promote the health rights of women prisoners living with HIV. Harvard University Press 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8233008/ /pubmed/34194215 Text en Copyright © 2021 Pillay, Chimbga, and van Hout. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction.
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