Policies and Practices in the Delivery of HIV Services in Correctional Agencies and Facilities: Results From a Multisite Survey

Steven Belenko; Matthew Hiller; Christy Visher; Michael Copenhaver; Daniel O'Connell; William Burdon; Jennifer Pankow; Jennifer Clarke; Carrie Oser

doi:10.1177/1078345813499313

Policies and Practices in the Delivery of HIV Services in Correctional Agencies and Facilities: Results From a Multisite Survey

Steven Belenko, Matthew Hiller, Christy Visher, Michael Copenhaver, Daniel O'Connell, William Burdon, Jennifer Pankow, Jennifer Clarke, Carrie Oser

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HIV risk is disproportionately high among incarcerated individuals. Corrections agencies have been slow to implement evidence-based guidelines and interventions for HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. The emerging field of implementation science focuses on organizational interventions to facilitate adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices. A survey of correctional agency partners from the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) revealed that HIV policies and practices in prevention, detection, and medical care varied widely, with some corrections agencies and facilities closely matching national guidelines and/or implementing evidence-based interventions. Others, principally attributed to limited resources, had numerous gaps in delivery of best HIV service practices. A brief overview is provided of a new CJ-DATS cooperative research protocol, informed by the survey findings, to test an organization-level intervention to reduce HIV service delivery gaps in corrections.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	293-310
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Correctional Health Care
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1078345813499313
State	Published - Oct 2013

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded under a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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HIV policies
correctional health care
evidence-based practice
implementation
inmates

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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