You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
BASHH column
The Prison Special Interest Group: striving for equitable sexual healthcare
  1. Susanna Currie
  1. Sexual Health Sheffield, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Susanna Currie, Sexual Health Sheffield, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK; susanna.currie{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2023-055848

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Background

    People who are in prison have the same right to healthcare as everyone else. They should be able to access the same quality and range of healthcare as those in the community. Concerns have been expressed that confidentiality is compromised in detention settings; access to HIV-pre-exposure prophylaxis is limited; availability of vaccines is variable; outbreaks of infections are more common and access to sexual healthcare in the UK is sporadic. The Prison Special Interest Group (SIG) was re-established at the beginning of 2020 with the aim to define standards of care for sexual health provision in prisons in the UK and enable standardisation of practice. The SIG also provides peer support to those facilitating sexual health provision in prisons in the UK.

    The Prison SIG is open to all professionals involved in the delivery of sexual healthcare in prisons, be that in research, clinical …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.