...Melitah Molatelo Rasweswe; Tebogo Maria Mothiba; Mamare Adelaide Bopape Purpose Incarcerated women in African correctional services face substantial menstrual hygiene challenges, highlighting systemic health inequities and human rights issues. The purpose of this study is to explore the barriers...

... of the prisoners’ health-care experience around the core category of access to health care emerged from the data. Enablers or barriers to this access were driven by three categories: a prison construct – how the prisoners “see” the prison system influencing access to health care; a health-care system construct...

... endorsed several barriers to seeking healthcare before entering jail that were more prevalent in women testing HCV reactive regardless of HCV status awareness before entering jail. Originality/value Injection and high-risk sharing practices as well as criminal justice factors were significantly...