“…Yet detainees may come in contact with health professionals: they may be subject to mandatory HIV testing [2], forced to donate blood [4], or they may participate in scientific research, sometimes involuntarily [6]. Published research in drug detention centres has investigated issues such as risk factors for HIV infection among injecting drug users (IDU) [7–10], HIV prevalence [11], effectiveness of behavioural HIV/STI prevention interventions [12], and the efficacy of particular modalities of drug treatment [13,14]. …”