HIV: Global Response and Young People

Lord Skelmersdale Excerpts
Thursday 30th November 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Skelmersdale Portrait Lord Skelmersdale (Con)
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My Lords, my noble friend will not be aware but a couple of years ago I went to Lusaka and visited a male prison where AIDS was in an incremental state. Does he accept that overcrowding in prisons is one of the causes, and one of the solutions, to reducing AIDS among men?

Lord Bates Portrait Lord Bates
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By making sure that people are educated and aware, there are many ways in which infection can be prevented—and prevention is far better than cure in virtually every circumstance. We are looking for opportunities to provide better education and sexual and reproductive advice to inmates as well as the wider population.