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8.6.1 Safeguards as Regards Health and Hygiene. The obligation to afford safeguards asregards health and hygiene would include taking sanitary measures necessary to ensure thecleanliness and healthfulness of camps and to prevent epidemics. For example, the DoD practicehas been to give detainees medical examinations upon arrival at an internment facility, disinfectthem, and provide them with any necessary inoculations. In addition, quarters should be keptfree from vermin, and detainees suffering from contagious diseases should be placed inquarantine as needed. 608.6.2 Protection Against the Rigors of Climate. The obligation to afford protectionagainst the rigors of climate would include ensuring that detention facilities are adequatelyheated, lighted, and protected against dampness. 618.6.3 Protection From the Dangers of Armed Conflict. Detention facilities shall not belocated close to the combat zone. 628.6.4 No Prohibition Against Detention Aboard Ships. Provided the above requirementsare met, there is no prohibition against the humane detention of persons on ships. 63 The GPWgenerally requires that POWs be interned on premises located on land. 648.7 SEGREGATION OF DETAINEESDetainees may be segregated into camps or camp compounds according to theirnationality, language, and customs, and the Detaining Power may use other criteria to segregatedetainees for administrative, security, intelligence, medical, or law enforcement purposes. 658.7.1 Gender and Family Segregation. Except when men and women of a family areaccommodated together, women shall be held in quarters separated from those of men and shallbe under the immediate supervision of women. 6659 Consider AP II art. 5(1)(b) (“The persons referred to in this paragraph shall, to the same extent as the localcivilian population, be provided with food and drinking water and be afforded safeguards as regards health andhygiene and protection against the rigours of the climate and the dangers of the armed conflict;”).60 Compare § 9.11.5.1 (Necessary Sanitary Measures).61 Compare § 10.11.3 (Conditions of Buildings and Quarters).62 Consider AP II art. 5(2)(c) (“Places of internment and detention shall not be located close to the combat zone.”).Compare § 9.11.4.1 (Avoidance of the Combat Zone); § 10.11.1.1 (Avoidance of Particularly Dangerous Areas).63 For example, Charlie Savage, U.S. Tests New Approach to Terrorism Cases on Somali Suspect, THE NEW YORKTIMES, Jul. 6, 2011 (“In interrogating a Somali man for months aboard a Navy ship before taking him to New Yorkthis week for a civilian trial on terrorism charges, the Obama administration is trying out a new approach for dealingwith foreign terrorism suspects. … The administration notified the International Committee of the Red Cross of hiscapture, and a Red Cross representative flew out to the ship and met with him. That visit came about two monthsafter his capture, during a four-day break between his interrogation for intelligence purposes and separatequestioning for law-enforcement purposes.”).64 Refer to § 9.11.3.1 (Location on Land).65 Compare § 9.12 (Segregation of POWs); § 10.10 (Segregation of Internees).498