Betteridge Glenn
HIV AIDS Policy Law Rev. 2004 Dec;9(3):96-9.
Prisoners exist on the margins of society, often without access to HIV prevention, care, treatment, or support. Depriving prisoners of the means to protect themselves from HIV infection, and failing to provide prisoners living with HIV with care, treatment, and support equivalent to that available in the community, offend international human rights norms. This article provides a summary of a draft paper prepared for Human Rights at the Margins: HIV/AIDS, Prisoners, Drug Users and the Law, a satellite meeting held in Bangkok on 9 July 2004, and organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit (India). The full text of the final paper, including references, is available on the Legal Network's website. The article reviews some of the international laws and instruments that protect the rights of prisoners and that set out minimum standards for treatment of prisoners; outlines activities in the prison setting that place prisoners at risk for HIV; describes some of the policies and societal factors that fuel the HIV/AIDS epidemic in prisons; and proposes a series of specific actions that should be taken now to respond to this epidemic.
囚犯处于社会边缘，往往无法获得艾滋病毒预防、护理、治疗或支持。剥夺囚犯保护自己免受艾滋病毒感染的手段，且不为感染艾滋病毒的囚犯提供与社区中相同的护理、治疗和支持，这违反了国际人权规范。本文概述了为“边缘人群的人权：艾滋病毒/艾滋病、囚犯、吸毒者与法律”准备的一篇论文草稿，该卫星会议于2004年7月9日在曼谷举行，由加拿大艾滋病毒/艾滋病法律网络和律师集体艾滋病毒/艾滋病小组（印度）组织。最终论文的全文，包括参考文献，可在法律网络的网站上获取。本文回顾了一些保护囚犯权利并规定囚犯待遇最低标准的国际法律和文书；概述了监狱环境中使囚犯面临艾滋病毒风险的活动；描述了助长监狱中艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的一些政策和社会因素；并提出了一系列目前应采取的应对这一流行病的具体行动。
