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Abstract: 

Holly Swan, a health services research and development post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, in Bedford, MA, has set out to answer the question: Why is HIV treatment being disrupted at such a high rate among individuals transitioning from incarceration to the community? The article describes her research on the experience of members of this group whose HIV treatment has been interrupted as a result of resuming their use of illegal drugs after release, as published in “Different Patterns of Drug Use and Barriers to Continuous HIV Care Post-Incarceration,” by Holly Swan, in 45 Journal of Drug Issues 38 (2015). Also reviews “Epidemiological Criminology: Contextualization of HIV/AIDS Health Care for Female Inmates,” by Mark M. Lanier, Barbara H. Zaitzow, and C. Thomas Farrell, published in 21 Journal of Correctional Health Care 152 (2015), which examines the familiar problem of correctional care for women with HIV through a new critical approach called Epidemiological Criminology, defined as ‘‘explicit merging of epidemiological and criminal justice theory, methods and practice” in order to “study . . . anything that affects the health of a society . . . .” Also reviews “Survey of U.S. Correctional Institutions for Routine HCV Testing” by Curt G. Beckwith, Ann E. Kurth, Lauri Bazerman, Liza Solomon, Emily Patry, Josiah D. Rich, and Irene Kuo, published in 105 American Journal of Public Health 68 (2015).

Keywords: HIV/AIDS treatment; Post-release drug relapse; Epidemiological Criminology; hepatitis C virus

Affiliations:  1: Pace Law School.