Table HSR-7. Availability and level of provision of selected health responses to prisoners in 26 EU countries, Norway and Turkey (expert ratings)

Country		Level of provision							Availability
		Individual counselling on infection risk	HCV test on entry	Pre-release counselling on overdose risk	Safer use training for prisoners	HCV test on release	Prison needle and syringe programmes (NSPs)		Risk-group specific hepatitis B vaccination programme in prison	Drug-specific formal health promotion trainings for prison staff	IEC materials on drug-related deaths and emergencies for prison setting
Belgium		Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	Yes	No
Bulgaria		Limited	Limited	No information	No information	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	No	No information
Czech Republic		Rare	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist		No	No information	No information
Denmark		No information	No information	Limited	No information	No information	Does not exist		No	No	No
Germany		Limited	Limited	No information	Does not exist	No information	Rare		No information	No information	Yes
Estonia		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Rare	Limited	Does not exist		Yes	Yes	No
Ireland		Limited	Limited	No information	Does not exist	No information	Does not exist		Yes	No	Yes
Greece		Rare	Extensive	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist		Yes	Yes	No
Spain		Extensive	Extensive	Rare	Extensive	Extensive	Extensive		Yes	Yes	Yes
France		Rare	Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist		No	No	No information
Italy		Extensive	No information	Extensive	No information	No information	No information		Yes	No	No information
Cyprus		Rare	Full	Limited	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	No	No
Latvia		Rare	Full	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	Yes	No
Lithuania		Full	Full	Does not exist	Does not exist	Full	Does not exist		Yes	Yes	Yes
Luxembourg		Extensive	Full	Extensive	Extensive	Rare	Extensive		No	Yes	No
Hungary		Full	Does not exist	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	No	No
Malta		:	:	:	:	:	:		:	:	:
Netherlands		Limited	Limited	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist		Yes	No	No
Austria		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Limited	Rare	Does not exist		No	Yes	No
Poland		Limited	Does not exist	Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	Yes	Yes
Portugal		Limited	Extensive	Rare	Rare	No information	Limited		Yes	Yes	No
Romania	(1)	Extensive	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Rare	Rare		No	Yes	No
Slovenia		Limited	Limited	Limited	Rare	Rare	Does not exist		Yes	Yes	Yes
Slovakia		Rare	Rare	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist		No	No information	No
Finland		Full	Extensive	Rare	Limited	Limited	Does not exist		Yes	No	No
Sweden		Full	Full	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist	Does not exist		Yes	No	No
United Kingdom		Limited	Rare	Limited	Limited	Rare	Does not exist		Yes	Yes	Yes
Croatia		:	:	:	:	:	:		:	:	:
Turkey		Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist	Limited	Does not exist	Does not exist		No information	No	No
Norway		No information	No information	No information	No information	No information	Does not exist		Yes	No	No information

Notes:

 : indicates data not available 

 Where data are not available for a country the table entry is left empty. 

 Rating Scale (level of provision) 

  Full: Nearly all prisoners have received the service during the last year at least once  

  Extensive: A majority of prisoners (but not nearly all of them) have received the service during the last year at least once 

  Limited: More than a few prisoners (but not a majority of them) have received the service during the last year at least once 

  Rare: Just a few prisoners have received the service during the last year at least once 

 (1) A prison NSP started in Jilava Penitentiary (Romania) in June 2008, personal communication K. Ionescu, 26/03/2009. 

 See also 'General notes for interpreting data' on the Explanatory notes and help page. 

Sources:

 Structured Questionnaire on 'Prevention and Reduction of Health-Related Harm associated with drug use' (SQ 23/29), submitted by NFPs in 2008 

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