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Afghanistan
 
Human Rights

          Internet Reports

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Systemic Abuse of Afghan Prisoners
Human Rights Watch, May 13th 2004
News Report
Iran
 
            Internet Reports
 
  FULL-TEXT REPORT
 Iran: Juvenile Offenders Face the Hangman’s Noose
Human Rights Watch
September 23, 2006
 News Report
 

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Preventing HIV transmission among Iranian prisoners: Initial support for providing education on
the benefits of harm  reduction practices.
 Eshrati B, Taghizadeh Asl R, Dell CA, et al
Harm Reduct J. 2008 Jun 9;5(1):21.
 Paper
 
High Prevalence of HIV Infection Associated With Incarceration Among Community-based
Injecting Drug Users in Tehran, Iran.
Zamani S, Kihara M, Gouya MM, et al  
Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2006 Apr 24;
 Abstract
 
Psychiatric morbidity among sentenced prisoners: prevalence study in Iran.
Assadi SM, Noroozian M, Pakravannejad M, et al 
Br J Psychiatry. 2006 Feb;188:159-64. R
 Abstract

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection and its related risk factors in drug abuser
prisoners in Hamedan - Iran.
 Alizadeh AH, Alavian SM, Jafari K, Yazdi N.
World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Jul 14;11(26):4085-4089.
 Abstract
 
         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Sex inside prisons in the context of gambling and drugs; A prisoners´ perspective from Iran.
 A. Feizzadeh, F. Kasraee, P. Afshar, H. Setayes
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Decrease in HIV prevalence in prisoners with drug-use related crimes following scale up of a
comprehensive HIV prevention package in Iran
 A. Yasaghi, M. Farnia, B. Ebrahimi, A. Sedaghat
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
HIV training for prisoners and their families; Iran experience
 F. Kasraee , P. Afshar , H. Setayesh  , A. Feizzadeh
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
Iraq
 
    Internet Reports
 
 
FULL-TEXT REPORT/LETTER
Open Detention Facilities to Stop Torture
 Human Rights Watch May 06, 2004
 News Report/Letter

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 U.S. Prisoner Abuse Sparks Concerns Over War Crimes
Human Rights Watch April 30
News Report
Israel
 

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
"Motherhood starts in prison": the experience of motherhood among women in prison.
 Shamai M, Kochal RB  
Fam Process. 2008 Sep;47(3):323-40.
Abstract
 
Inmate Harassment and Rape: An Exploratory Study of Seven Maximum- and Medium-Security
Male Prisons in Israel.
Einat T. 
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2008 Aug 7.
Abstract
 
Changes in mental health policy and their influence on self-injurious behaviours in
the Israeli military prison system
Iancu I, Bodner E, Sarel A, Einat H. 
Can J Psychiatry. 2007 Sep;52(9):591-7
 Abstract

Learning Disabilities and Delinquency: A Study of Israeli Prison Inmates.
Einat T, Einat A.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2007 Oct 1;
 Abstract
Lebanon
 

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Tuberculosis in Lebanese jails: prevalence and risk factors.
Adib SM, Al-Takash H, Al-Hajj C. 
Eur J Epidemiol 1999 Mar;15(3):253-60
 Abstract
Pakistan
 

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Prevalence of and risk factors associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
infection in prisoners, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
Hussain H, Akhtar S, Nanan D.
Int J Epidemiol. 2003 Oct;32(5):794-9.
 Abstract
 
         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
Prevention of HIV/STI transmission among child prisoners in Pakistan
Ayub M.
 (XVI International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Prevention of HIV/AIDS and STDs among juvenile prisoners in north west
frontier province (NWFP), Pakistan
A Y B Ayub
(15IAC)
 Abstract

Screening/testing for HIV of jail inmates of Central prison I& II of Sukkur
S Arain
(15IAC)
 Abstract
 
Project experience on knowledge attitude, behavior and awareness programme
in the prisoners, Pakistan
Khalid Mehmood Khan
(14IAC)
 Abstract
Palestine
 

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Dispositional and situational coping and mental health among Palestinian political ex-prisoners.
Punamaki RL, Salo J, Komproe I, et al 
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2008 Oct;21(4):337-58.
 Abstract
Turkey
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Psychiatric morbidity in murder and attempted murder crime convicts: A Turkey study.
Kugu N, Akyuz G, Dogan O, et al 
Forensic Sci Int. 2007 Aug 2;
 Abstract
 
The physician and prison hunger strikes: reflecting on the experience in Turkey.
Oguz NY, Miles SH. 
J Med Ethics. 2005 Mar;31(3):169-72.
 Abstract

Tuberculosis in Nazilli District Prison, Turkey, 1997-2001.
Kiter G, Arpaz S, Keskin S, 
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003 Feb;7(2):153-8
 Abstract		  

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