Prevention and Control of COVID-19 in Italian Prisons: Stringent Measures and Unintended Consequences

Front Public Health. 2020 Sep 17:8:559135. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.559135. eCollection 2020.

¹ Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
² Health Without Barriers, The European Federation for Prison Health, Viterbo, Italy.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Viterbo Local Health Unit, Viterbo, Italy.
⁴ Infectious Diseases Service, Penitentiary Health System, San Paolo University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Emilia Romagna Region, Bologna, Italy.
⁶ Penitentiary Health System, Modena Local Health Unit, Modena, Italy.
⁷ WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office), Moscow, Russia.
⁸ Public Health Unit, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Italy; pandemic; people who use drugs (PWUD); prevention and control; prison.

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