Rapid HIV Testing in Large Urban Jails

Beckwith, Curt G.; Nunn, Amy; Baucom, Sharon; Getachew, Asresahegn; Akinwumi, Akin; Herdman, Bruce; DiBartolo, Phil; Spencer, Susan; Brown, Devon; Lesansky, Henry; Kuo, Irene

doi:10.2105/ajph.2011.300514

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“…Rapid HIV testing in jails may be used to expedite notification of results to both patient and provider and thus facilitate a more expedited evaluation for ART as well as expedite partner notification and risk reduction. 9,[14][15][16] Evaluation and treatment algorithms that can be implemented following a new HIV diagnosis, or upon knowledge that someone with chronic HIV infection has been incarcerated, must be developed. The removal of structural barriers to the delivery of HIV care will enable more efficient evaluation and consideration for ART initiation prior to jail release.…”

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“…9 While HIV testing in jails is possible, we do not know whether persons newly diagnosed with HIV infection in jails go on to complete the initial evaluation for HIV and start ART. The short length of stay likely impacts the ability to deliver HIV test results, complete a baseline evaluation [CD4 count, HIV plasma viral load (PVL), and HIV genotype], initiate ART, and provide linkage to community HIV care after release.…”

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“…The short length of stay likely impacts the ability to deliver HIV test results, complete a baseline evaluation [CD4 count, HIV plasma viral load (PVL), and HIV genotype], initiate ART, and provide linkage to community HIV care after release. [9][10][11] In order to determine whether it is feasible to consider the implementation of STT within jails, we conducted a study that examined whether persons newly diagnosed with HIV infection in the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) jail were able to start ART and be linked to community HIV care after release. 12 A RIDOC health education nurse delivered positive results.…”

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The Feasibility of Implementing the HIV Seek, Test, and Treat Strategy in Jails

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Gillani

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AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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To successfully implement the Seek, Test, and Treat (STT) strategy to curb the HIV epidemic, the criminal justice system must be a key partner. Increasing HIV testing and treatment among incarcerated persons has the potential to decrease HIV transmission in the broader community, but whether it is feasible to consider the implementation of the STT within jail facilities is not known. We conducted a retrospective review of Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) medical records to assess whether persons newly diagnosed in the jail were able to start ART and be linked to community HIV care after release. From 2001 to 2007, 64 RIDOC detainees were newly diagnosed with HIV. During their index incarcerations, 64% were informed of positive confirmatory HIV test results, 50% completed baseline evaluations, and 9% began ART. Linkage to community care was confirmed for 58% of subjects. Subjects incarcerated for >14 days were significantly more likely to receive HIV test results and complete baseline evaluation ( p < 0.001). A similar association was not observed for ART initiation until incarceration length reached 60 days ( p < 0.001). There was no association between incarceration length and linkage to care. This comprehensive analysis demonstrates that length of incarceration impacts HIV test result delivery, baseline evaluation, and ART initiation in the RIDOC. Jails are an important venue to ''Seek'' and ''Test''; however, completing the ''Treat'' part of the STT strategy is hindered by the transient nature of this criminal justice population and may require new strategies to improve linkage to care.

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The Feasibility of Implementing the HIV Seek, Test, and Treat Strategy in Jails

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Gillani

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AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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“…In city jails, rapid HIV testing may improve the identification of new cases and subsequent care coordination by shortening the time from test to result, but this approach requires particular attention to setting-specific issues, including space limitations, confidentiality, and detainee turnover for success (10) (103) noted high rates of STIs in young people entering jail and juvenile detention centers and recommended testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea in adolescents and young women and, where local prevalence warrants, in young and adult men. Similarly, syphilis screening was recommended only where local epidemiology suggests heightened risk in the population.…”

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A Review of Opportunities to Improve the Health of People Involved in the Criminal Justice System in the United States

Freudenberg

Heller

2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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In the past decade, many constituencies have questioned the efficacy, cost, and unintended consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. Although substantial evidence now demonstrates that US incarceration policies have had unintended adverse health consequences, we know less about the strategies and policies that can prevent or reduce these problems for justiceinvolved individuals and how the criminal justice system (CJS) can contribute to the Healthy People 2020 national goal of eliminating inequities in health. This review examines strategies that have been used to improve the health of people at various stages of CJS involvement, including diversion from jail and prison stays into community settings, improvements to the social and physical environments within correctional facilities, provision of health and other services to inmates, assistance for people leaving correctional facilities to make the transition back to the community, and systems coordination and integration.

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“…For example, since 2008, the Baltimore City jails have offered HIV rapid testing to inmates on a voluntary basis. 55 However, while attention to HIV prevention among incarcerated partners has greatly increased, 56 more work focusing on non-incarcerated partners is needed. The study has shown that incarcerated individuals do not account for the entire link between HIV and incarceration; nonincarcerated partners also may introduce HIV/STIs to the relationship.…”

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Norms, Attitudes, and Sex Behaviors among Women with Incarcerated Main Partners

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Incarceration has been extensively linked with HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). While a great deal of attention has been given to the risk behaviors of people who have been incarcerated, examination of the behaviors of partners of incarcerated individuals is also needed to understand the direct and indirect links between incarceration and HIV and to identify prevention avenues. In the present study, we hypothesize that incarceration is associated with risk behavior through attitudes and norms. The purpose of this paper is: (1) to describe the attitudes and norms about sexual behaviors that women have when a sexual partner is incarcerated; and (2) to examine the association between attitudes and norms with the behavior of having other sex partners while a main partner is incarcerated. In our sample (n=175), 50 % of women reported having other sex partners while their partner was incarcerated. Our findings show that attitudes, descriptive norms (i.e., norms about what other people do), and injunctive norms (i.e., norms about what others think is appropriate) were associated with having other partners. Interventions designed for couples at pre-and post-release from prison are needed to develop risk reduction plans and encourage HIV/STI testing prior to their reunion.

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Rapid HIV Testing in Large Urban Jails

Cited by 41 publications

References 11 publications

The Feasibility of Implementing the HIV Seek, Test, and Treat Strategy in Jails

The Feasibility of Implementing the HIV Seek, Test, and Treat Strategy in Jails

A Review of Opportunities to Improve the Health of People Involved in the Criminal Justice System in the United States

Norms, Attitudes, and Sex Behaviors among Women with Incarcerated Main Partners

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