Prisoner Health: HIV infection and, other blood-borne viral infections.

Amanda Messler-Layman
Regulatory Agency
HCS/430
10/21/2012

Prisoner Health: HIV infection and, other blood-borne viral infections.

The topic is prisoner healthcare and, HIV infection and, other blood-borne viral infections. The paper is to let you know what the agency plans and, what they are doing to help the prisoners get the proper care that they need not only for them but for the guards, other prisoners safety. The role of the agency is to establish sound data regarding the extant of the problem and, how problematic it can be if there is nothing done. The data will help let the agencies know what has to be done and, how bad this is in the prisons. What type of plan that they have how much this is going to cost them? They also can check in to a grant to help with the cost. The Health Protection Agency Prison Infection Prevention Team is the name of the agency that is trying to help improve the health care in our prisons this is what we need to help the spread of infections in the prisons. They are the agency that gathers all the data and, they do research on men and, women on what their problems and concerns are. They need to see what the needs of the prisoners are what they are getting and, what they are not getting that they need. How they are getting treated and, what are the complaints are if not. Are they being offered quality manner in a timely manner. The impact on healthcare I think this is costing us a lot of money in tax dollars for the cost of care for them also they are using condoms in the prisons this is for the spread of HIV but what is the cost to us. The cost is high for the cost of condoms and the needs and, health care costs. We understand the prisoners should be offered the same healthcare as people out