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Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa
Several attempts have been made by the global public health efforts and national governments to contain the spread and vulnerabilities to COVID-19. Evidence, however, shows a disproportionate upsurge in COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities such as prisons, particularly, in low- and middle-incom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35247123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00176-8 |
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author | Katey, Daniel Abass, Kabila Garsonu, Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, Razak M. |
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description | Several attempts have been made by the global public health efforts and national governments to contain the spread and vulnerabilities to COVID-19. Evidence, however, shows a disproportionate upsurge in COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities such as prisons, particularly, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The poor adherence to COVID-19 preventive protocols in these settings has raised a serious “moral panic” among the public. There are public health concerns about the most effective and state-of-the-art approach to tackling the continuous spread of the virus in prisons. This paper discusses the feasibility of depopulation and vaccination rollouts in combating COVID-19 in correctional facilities with a particular focus on African prisons. The paper proposes selective and strategic depopulation of prisoners, effective prioritization of vaccination among prisoners, and general sensitization of prisoners toward vaccine disbursement in this total institution. |
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spelling | pubmed-88976162022-03-07 Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa Katey, Daniel Abass, Kabila Garsonu, Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, Razak M. Health Justice Letter to the Editor Several attempts have been made by the global public health efforts and national governments to contain the spread and vulnerabilities to COVID-19. Evidence, however, shows a disproportionate upsurge in COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities such as prisons, particularly, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The poor adherence to COVID-19 preventive protocols in these settings has raised a serious “moral panic” among the public. There are public health concerns about the most effective and state-of-the-art approach to tackling the continuous spread of the virus in prisons. This paper discusses the feasibility of depopulation and vaccination rollouts in combating COVID-19 in correctional facilities with a particular focus on African prisons. The paper proposes selective and strategic depopulation of prisoners, effective prioritization of vaccination among prisoners, and general sensitization of prisoners toward vaccine disbursement in this total institution. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8897616/ /pubmed/35247123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00176-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Katey, Daniel Abass, Kabila Garsonu, Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, Razak M. Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title | Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title_full | Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title_fullStr | Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title_short | Depopulation or vaccination? Tackling the COVID-19 crisis in prisons in Africa |
title_sort | depopulation or vaccination? tackling the covid-19 crisis in prisons in africa |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8897616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35247123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00176-8 |
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