... (e.g., Ministry of Justice [MoJ], Ministry of the Interior [MoI], Ministry of Law [MoL]) has resulted in insuffi cient involvement or delay in enrollment of prison health staff in DOTS training ... that the risk of engaging in injecting drug use increases with every year a person is in prison.5, 10 Injecting drug users often share needles, syringes,7,8 or homemade injecting equipment ... practice in prisons, resulting in major funding gaps. The principles of equivalence, if not of equity, of health care for all are frequently disregarded in the case of prisoners. An account of one...