HIV/ AIDS

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Should prisons provide preventative contraception to reduce passing sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV-AIDs)?
Prisons should be provided with preventative contraceptives to minimize the rate at which sexually transmitted diseases are passed from one person to another. For several reasons, inmates do not have the freedom to make many choices on what they should do and what they shouldn’t. Most of the inmates may have the capacity to receive better medical care in case they are not in the confines of the prison. As a result, the government is solely responsible for seeing that they are taken care of in the fundamental aspect of their welfare. And this includes the provision of better medical care whenever necessary. Offering preventative contraceptive is helpful. The prisoners are not endowed with the chance of choosing their partners. Other are vulnerable to assault thus the need to take care of them when the need arises. The preventative contraceptives may prove helpful not only to the inmate when they are in prison but also when they leave.
Should HIV-Positive inmates be segregated to its population (including those identifying themselves as homosexuals and heterosexuals)?
A prison inmate who is HIV- positive should not be segregated from the rest of the inmates. They run the risk of becoming vulnerable to discrimination and experiencing stigma. This in return will lead to the prison population viewing them as outcasts and thus being denied the right to access prison services such as health care.

This affects their wellbeing. The inmates should learn methods to accommodate each other and protect themselves from being infected by avoiding risky undertakings such as sharing of needles, avert heterosexual intercourses among others. they should be taught on the safe way of handling matters (Prisoners – HIV Prevention in Prison 1).Should prison guards have any say on this topic?
Correctional officer receives firsthand information of what is happening in prison. Using the information, they can be able to decide on how to act and what to do under various circumstances. This implies that they should have a chance to have a say on the topic.
Work Cited
“Prisoners – HIV Prevention in Prison.” Aidsmap.Com, 2013, http://www.aidsmap.com/HIV-prevention-in-prison/page/1503998/. Accessed 2 May 2018.