Management of HIV/AIDS in prisons: the case of the CP Goma-DRC

As part of our Master's degree in International Public Health Management, required by MADISON INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE AND BUSINESS SCHOOL, we were required to conduct a research study for our master's thesis. Thus, a research was conducted whose objective was to study the level of access to antiretroviral drugs of PLWHIV prisoners in order to contribute to the development of treatment mechanism for HIV/AIDS in prisons, a disease that seems to be ignored for this category of people. In-depth studies point out the factors related to access or not to ARVs in prisons, also calling upon the actors of the health field and more particularly those involved in the care of HIV patients in general and more particularly in the prison environment. Since the supply of these ARVs is also lacking at a certain time, our research proposed a series of strategies to promote access to ARVs as a contribution to raising the level of access to ARVs in the management of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral treatment.