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 pageThe 4th February is World Cancer Day, a day that is of considerable relevance to many imprisoned across the world. As we highlighted in November for World Diabetes Day, there ...
Gray, B., Perrett, S., Gudgeon, B., Shankar, A., G., (January 2019) Journal of Public Health Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health issue and in low-incidence countries ...
WEPHREN supports World AIDS Day 2018 by collecting and sharing resources from around the world for prisons on the WEPHREN website. There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are ...
T. M. McMillan, L. Graham, J. P. Pell, A. McConnachie, D. F. Mackay (2019) There is mounting evidence that associates brain injury and offending behaviour, and thereis a ...
The Council of Europe has published two reports reflecting:
The Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT) addresses existing gaps in the prevention of HIV and other co-infections, especially tuberculosis (TB) and viral hepatitis ...
WEPHREN supports World Diabetes Day 14th November 2018 by collecting and sharing resources from around the world for prisons on the WEPHREN website. There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases ...
by Dr Sarah Anderson, Public Health England's Lead for the TB Strategy On 26th September 2018 World Leaders met at the United Nations General Assembly and ...
The Committee now invites all interested parties to comment on the current draft of its revised General Comment No. 10 (2007). Comments are welcome on all aspects of the draft General Comment, with a particular focus on the following issues: ... 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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