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This chapter captures the views of the prison medical team and the prison staff regarding the situation of HIV and AIDS in prisons. The data, gathered through unstructured interviews with the prison doctors and staff, are presented under various subthemes.
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Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, locally known as ‘Sion Hospital’, is a municipal hospital situated in Sion, a suburb of Mumbai.
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Guin, S. (2015). Prison Personnel and HIV: Views and Experiences. In: Prison Inmates Living with HIV in India. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15566-1_5
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