Abstract
Very few countries around the world provide prisoners with condoms, despite this being an effective intervention to control sexually transmitted infections including HIV and viral hepatitis in prisons. A recent study explored this with public health and prison health experts from eight European countries.1 The participants discussed a set of factors that need to be taken into account in designing and conducting an effective prison-based condom programme. These factors include highlighting the necessity of condom provision in prisons, engagement of internal and external beneficiaries in all stages of designing and implementing the programme, conducting a pilot phase, and the use of vending machines as the best method of condom distribution in prisons. The authors suggest that condom provision programmes are not only part of prisoners’ rights to health care, but are also a move towards achieving the United Nations 2030 sustainable development goal of ‘leaving no one behind’.2
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