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Map: Prisons Visited by Human Rights Watch in Uganda iii
Definitions and Acronyms ART or ARVs: Antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV, which works to suppress the HIV virus and stop the progression of the HIV disease CD4 count: The number of CD4 cells (T-helper lymphocytes with CD4 cell surface marker) used to assess immune status, susceptibility to opportunistic infections, and a patient’s need for antiretroviral therapy Committals or committed prisoners: Prisoners facing serious criminal charges, such as murder or aggravated robbery, whose cases have been sent to the High Court but who have not yet completed their trials Farm prison: Prison where prisoners work on government-owned fields to produce mainly maize meal and beans consumed by prisoners countrywide, in addition to other labor Garden: Field where prisoners work, also referred to as a shamba JLOS: Justice Law and Order Sector, a group of Ugandan government bodies and international donors working collaboratively to improve access to justice Katikkiro: Prisoner with disciplinary authority, sometimes called RP (short for “Resource Protection”) or ward leader; Luganda word literally meaning “administrative head” LAP: Local administration prison; until 2006, local governments in Uganda administered over 170 prisons independent of the Uganda Prisons Service; former LAPs are smaller and historically less resourced than the larger prisons which have been continuously under central government administration MDR-TB: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, a form of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant in vitro to the effects of isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most powerful anti-TB drugs, with or without resistance to any other drugs Murchison Bay Prison Hospital: The only prison referral hospital in Uganda administering care to prisoners, based at the Luzira/Murchison Bay Prison complex in Kampala iv
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Page 5: Prisons Service Failures of Managem
Page 10 and 11: Summary If you say you’re sick, t
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Page 14 and 15: Key Recommendations For Immediate I
Page 16 and 17: Methodology This report is based on
Page 18 and 19: Caution should be taken in generali
Page 20 and 21: center prisons. Individual officers
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Page 24 and 25: wards routinely sleeping twice or t
Page 26 and 27: confiscated all or a portion of the
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Page 44 and 45: few hours to two weeks, as specifie
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We, the sick ones, remain in the wa
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When I arrived here, on that very d
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Hygiene- and Sanitation-Related Ill
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facility.” 323 The WHO protocol f
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incarceration. 339 The president of
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Table 6: Months in Detention for Re
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crimes—in itself a violation of i
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Numerous prisoners told Human Right
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Unnecessary and extended pretrial d
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of two prisoners remanded at Bubukw
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The prison death register confirmed
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supervisory duties over lower units
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Uganda for AIDS relief, 457 with di
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IV. Recommendations We need resourc
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• Establishing guidelines for ref
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To the Uganda Ministry of Health
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