Prisoners in Quebec and Ontario have alarmingly high rates of HIV or hepatitis C infections, finds two new studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. And this public health crisis is reaching beyond prison gates.
Richard Elliott, an advocate with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, wrote a commentary on the studies that appeared in the same edition of the journal. In it, he notes the public is also at risk thanks to lacking efforts by health care officials.
"They go back to their family and friends and they go back to their communities and any diseases they may have acquired while in prison come with them," Elliott said about the prisoners.
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