WEPHREN hosted the University of New Mexico for the Alex Gatherer Memorial Lecture on Hepatitis C in prisons and an innovative peer mentoring programme. Find out more here
by Dr Éamonn O’Moore, Director of the UK Collaborating Centre for WHO Health in Prisons (European Region)
The work of WEPHREN is guided by a Steering Committee made up from members of the WHO Health in Prisons Programme Steering Group and other experts in the field who meet once a quarter to review the delivery plan for WEPHREN and provide advice and support to the WHO UK Collaborating Centre in delivering the objectives. Find out more here.
Go to page‘Since children are in their formative years, when deprivation of liberty may have highly detrimental effects on their physical and mental health, their further development and their life, States are ...
Imprisoned women have higher rates of abnormalities at cervical screening and some studies suggest that cervical cancer is the most common cancer in this population. The aim of this work was to summarise ...
Here at Birth Companions we are proud of the level of support we’ve received for the Birth Charter for women in prison in England and Wales, and the influence it ...
Although there are over one million people in prison in sub-Saharan African, research activity on prison health is historically of low priority and generally confined to the gathering of rapid ...
To mark World Hospice and Palliative Care Day this October, we are publishing a blog by Dr Mary Turner, Reader in Health Services Research, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Co-chair ...
The European Commission published on 25 September 2019 a call for proposals for € 2.375 million to support transnational projects in the area of EU drugs policy. This ...
Suicide is a leading cause of death in prisons across the world and so to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2019 on 10th September, suicide in prison is the ...
Engaging young people in drug prevention interventions presents challenges especially when the intervention is delivered within criminal justice contexts. As part of the EPPIC project we opened discussions on this ...
The Counselling in Prisons Network (www.cipn.org.uk) has launched an independent Expert Reference group in relation to Informed Trauma Care (ITC) in the criminal justice system. Please contact Peter Jones on peterjonescipn@outlook.com for more information. Read more
The Council of Europe has published a report on prison management and organisation, authored by Jorg Pont and Timothy Harding. Read more
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health problem in correctional settings. Due to the intersection of substance use disorders and the criminal justice ...
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