Table 2.
Sources of data used to assess level of compliance with each UN recommended HIV intervention for prisons and the crude rate of people living with HIV in prison in 2018–19 by Australian jurisdiction.
| Intervention21 | Jurisdiction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland | Victoria | South Australia | Tasmania | New South Wales | Western Australia | Northern Territory | Australian Capital Territory | |
| 1. Education, including peer-based programmes | KI, | KI | KI | KI | PA,30, 31, 32 O | KI | PA33 | PA,34 O |
| 2. Condom programmes | KI | KI | KI | KI34 | PA,31 O | KI | U | PA,34 O |
| 3. Prevention of sexual violence | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | U | O |
| 4. Drug dependence treatment, including opioid substitution therapy | KI, PA35 | KI | KI | KI | PA36 | KI | PA36 | PA36 |
| 5. Needle and syringe programmes | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | O | O |
| 6. Prevention of transmission through medical or dental services | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | O | O |
| 7. Prevention of transmission through tattooing, piercing, and other skin penetration forms | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | U | O |
| 8. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)a | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,31 O | KI | U | O |
| 9. HIV testing and counselling | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,31,37,38 O | KI, PA39 | U | O |
| 10. HIV treatment, care, and support | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,31 O | KI | U | O |
| 11. Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,40 O | KI | U | O |
| 12. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | U | O |
| 13. Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections | KI | KI | KI | KI | O | KI | U | O |
| 14. Vaccination, diagnosis, and treatment of viral hepatitis | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,36 O | KI | PA36 | PA,36 O |
| 15. Protecting staff from occupational hazards | KI | KI | KI | KI | PA,40 O | KI | U | O |
| Crude rate of people living with HIV in prison in 2018–19 | KI | U | KI | U | O | KI | U | O |
KI: Key informant, PA: Publicly available information, O: Other. Two participants interviewed for stage two of the study provided policy information.
PrEP was not included in the comprehensive package at the time of its publication in 2013. Due to emerging evidence since publication, PrEP was added to this key intervention for this study.