HIV prevalence and continuum of care among incarcerated people in Iran from 2010 to 2017

• Main Authors: Armita Shahesmaeili (Author), Mohammad Karamouzian (Author), Fatemeh Tavakoli (Author), Mostafa Shokoohi (Author), Ali Mirzazadeh (Author), Samira Hosseini-Hooshyar (Author), Saber Amirzadeh Googhari (Author), Nima Ghalekhani (Author), Razieh Khajehkazemi (Author), Zahra Abdolahinia (Author), Noushin Fahimfar (Author), AliAkbar Haghdoost (Author), Hamid Sharifi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Incarcerated people are at an increased risk of contracting HIV and transmitting it to the community post-release. In Iran, HIV epidemics inside prisons were first detected in the early 1990s. We assessed the HIV prevalence and its correlates, as well as the continuum of care amo...