Five years working with people forgotten before they were dead

22.03.2006
MSF Article
Inside the prison, the risk of contracting HIV is five to seven times higher than in the streets of Lima. During visit days, an average of 4,000 people enter the facility. They include relatives, friends and salespeople who, through their contacts, help spread infectious diseases among the prison population.
After five years of work in Lima's Lurigancho prison, focusing on STI and HIV/AIDS, Mèdecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Peru has started handing over its project, in one of the most populated prisons of Latin America, to local authorities.
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Five years working with people forgotten before they were dead

22.03.2006
MSF Article
Inside the prison, the risk of contracting HIV is five to seven times higher than in the streets of Lima. During visit days, an average of 4,000 people enter the facility. They include relatives, friends and salespeople who, through their contacts, help spread infectious diseases among the prison population.
After five years of work in Lima's Lurigancho prison, focusing on STI and HIV/AIDS, Mèdecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Peru has started handing over its project, in one of the most populated prisons of Latin America, to local authorities.
Article:Peru (http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?objectid=21E7A7E0-97A9-132A-23A1FFF43FFE7C74&component=toolkit.article&method=full_html)Far as I know, the best way to keep from getting AIDS is to have sex with one's hand. Can't get AIDS from that. I did 15 years flat and never had a problem with it. If one cannot abstain from sticking their d--k in someone, then that is the chance they take. And getting it from the drinking fountain or from a fork or whatever, that dog won't hunt.
eyedoc

Far as I know, the best way to keep from getting AIDS is to have sex with one's hand. Can't get AIDS from that. I did 15 years flat and never had a problem with it. If one cannot abstain from sticking their d--k in someone, then that is the chance they take. And getting it from the drinking fountain or from a fork or whatever, that dog won't hunt.
eyedoc

With the high probability of fights within prison, it would be inaccurate to think that the only way to contract HIV/AIDS in prison is by sexual activity. Even without fights, the virus can live for such a long time on surfaces there is even a chance, even if it is a small one, of it being spread that way.

I think that it is especially important that we remember that we remember that HIV/AIDS doesn't live up to anyone's stereotypes. It is not strictly a sexually transmitted disease. It has, and can be transmitted in many other ways. In a prison setting, I would say that probably the second most common way of transmission would be prison tattoos.

Excellent answer Amy. The saddest part about prison here in SA and Africa is that 75% of the population have it in prison - and only 20 to 30 % had it before they went in. I dont think all them had sex whilst in prison either. Some of the biggest culprit is tattoo's and fighting.

I read that even bleach may not kill the virus. When there is a fight in prison, there is usually blood and most definitely a risk to anyone within blood splattering distance. Its a very serious problem.

It seems that there are simple solutions to improved sanitation, but the failure to acknowledge a mistake is resulting in an error