User:Ehernandez14/Prison sexuality

Inmate contraceptive access
Organizations like the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program On HIV/AIDS truly believe that condoms should be available to prisoners and have been insistent on it for more than a decade. Despite their attempts to provide condoms some places still do not provide them. Conversations in the United States can be filled with judgments as to what prisoners do not deserve, condoms being part of this. While the conversations take place the infection rates of HIV and other STIs continue to rise severely affecting both the inmates and the community.

Debate over Condoms in the U.S.
There are multiple factors that contribute to the debate over providing condoms to prisoners, one factor is that of political standings. Particularly, in the U.S, prison officials have the notion that providing condoms indicates that through providing them, condoms, having sex in prison is okay, which is not the case as it is illegal in some places. In 1999 under the George W. Bush administration, some penal systems participated in condom distribution including San Francisco, Washington D.C, and New York City. Without condoms, the situation has gotten to the extent that "other protection", such as foam, is utilized to prevent transmission of HIV.