This presentation by Jeannette Webb was part of strategy #2 panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). The presentation provided examples of how we are engaging criminal legal populations in research and shared results from an EHE funded supplement focused on PrEP implementation in jails and following release from the perspective of stakeholders.
Presentation by Dr. Abenaa A. Jones that focused on substance use, HIV and associated risk behaviors, and experiences of violence are prevalent and often inextricably linked among women who use drugs, particularly those involved in the criminal justice system. The presentation will explore the syndemic of substance use, HIV, and violence, along with the development of an all-female and trauma-informed intervention to reduce the incidence and adverse effects of these syndemic issues.
Presentation featuring Felipe Findley and Vanessa Warri that shares broad perspectives of CHIPTS Community Advisory Board member and community partners engaged in CHIPTS PIC work to address disproportionate health outcomes across communities engaged by carceral systems. Panelists will elucidate pathways for researchers to better capture the effects of criminalization on health outcomes.
This policy brief describes how re-entry has been associated with increased, illness, mortality, and risky health behaviors. The brief highlights the process of community re-entry presenting a crucial opportunity to link individuals with needed health and social services. This brief looks to HIV, a pandemic predating COVID-19, in order to draw broader lessons for addressing the needs of incarcerated populations in the United States during re-entry.
This policy brief describes the criminalization of commercial sex trade and regulatory frameworks seeking to regulate it differ across the globe. These efforts are described into four models of criminalization and regulation which include criminalize sex trade, criminalize clients (also known as the Nordic or End Demand model), regulate sex trade, and decriminalize sex trade.
Oral presentation by Siddharth Raich, Center for Health Justice that discusses information retention barriers which include mental health challenges, literacy issues, language barriers that impact inmates and juveniles’ awareness and understanding of co-infections of HIV and STIs, unsafe sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and of anti-retroviral treatments.