Key References

Prison Hepatitis B Vaccination Monitoring Programme

• Gilbert RL, Costella A, Piper M, Gill ON. Increasing hepatitis B vaccine coverage in prisons in England and Wales. Commun Dis Public Health 2004, 7: 306-311 (PDF, 656 KB)
  
  
• Hope VD, Ncube F, Hickman M, Judd A, Parry JV.  Hepatitis B vaccine uptake among injection drug users in England 1998 to 2004: is the prison vaccination programme driving recent improvements? Journal of Viral Hepatitis 2007; 14:653-660
• Sutton AJ, Gay NJ, Edmunds WJ, Andrews NJ, Hope VD, Gilbert R et al. Modelling the hepatitis B vaccination programme in prisons. Epidemiology and Infection 2006, 134, 231-242 (PDF, 169 KB)
• Sutton AJ, Gay NJ and Edmunds WJ. Modelling the impact of prison vaccination on hepatitis B transmission within the injecting drug user population of England and Wales. Vaccine 2006, 24, 13: 2377-2386 (PDF, 300 KB)
• Hutchinson et al. (2004). (PDF, 66 KB)
  Sudden rise in uptake of hepatitis B vaccination among injecting drug users associated with a universal vaccine programme in prisons - Vaccine 23 210-214]
  
  

Injecting Drug Users

• Health Protection Agency, Health Protection Scotland, National Public Health Services for Wales, CDSC Northern Ireland, CRDHB, and the UASSG. Shooting Up: Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2008. London: Health Protection Agency, October 2009.
• Sutton A. Protecting Injecting Drug Users against Blood-Borne Viruses: Modelling the impact of prison-based interventions. Doctoral Thesis. University of Warwick, Department of Biological Sciences 2006 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
  
  
• Sutton AJ, Gay NJ, Edmunds WJ, Andrews NJ, Hope VD, Gill ON. Modelling the Characteristics of the Male Injecting Drug User Population in England and Wales. International Journal of Drug Policy 2005, 16: 176-182 (PDF, 380 KB)

Infectious diseases in Prison

• Anderson C, Story A, Brown T, Drobniewski F, Abubakar I. Tuberculosis in UK prisoners: a challenge for control. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2010.
• Weild AR, Gill ON, Bennett D, Livingstone SJ, Parry JV, Curran L. Prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C antibodies in prisoners in England and Wales: a national survey. Commun Dis Public Health 2000 Jun; 3(2):121-6.
• C Skipper, JM Guy, J Parkes, P Roderick, WM Rosenburg. Evaluation of a prison outreach clinic for the diagnosis and prevention of hepatitis C: implications for the national strategy. Gut 2003, 52:1500-1504.
• Gilbert RL, O'Connor T, Mathew S, Allen K, Piper M, Gill ON. Hepatitis A vaccination - a prison-based solution for a community-based outbreak? Commun Dis Public Health 2004, 4: 289-293. (PDF, 708 KB)
• Jurgens R. HIV/AIDS and HCV in prisions. A select annotated bibliography. Ottawa: Health Canada, November 2005.