Hepatitis C virus infection in EU/EEA and United Kingdom prisons: opportunities and challenges for action

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Table 5 NSPs and OST in prisons, EU/EEA and United Kingdom (UK)

	NSPs	Eligibility for OST	Year	People on OST, n
Belgium	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2016	686
Bulgaria	Unavailable	Sentenced only	2016	14
Croatia	Unavailable	Sentenced only	2016	414
Cyprus	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2016	8
Czech Republic	Unavailable	Sentenced only	2015	53
Denmark	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	NA	..
Estonia	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2016	71
Finland	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	411
France	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	5325
Germany	Available*	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	NA²	2780²
Iceland	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	..	4
Ireland	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	479
Italy	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2014	1647
Latvia	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	50
Lithuania	Unavailable	Unknown¹	NA	..
Malta	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	NA	..
Netherlands	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	NA	..
Norway	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	409
Poland	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	140
Portugal	Unavailable**	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	1137
Romania	Available**	Sentenced only	2016	42
Slovakia	Unavailable	NA	NA	NA
Slovenia	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	NA	..
Spain	All prisons	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2016	3532
Sweden	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2016	50
UK-England	Unavailable	Sentenced and pre-trial detention	2015	29,146
UK-Northern Ireland	..	..	2016	38
UK-Scotland	..	..	2016	1711
UK-Wales	..	..	NA	..

Source: HIPED
.. No data, NA Not applicable
* Reports to EMCDDA indicate NSP available in one female prison [28, 29]
** Reports to EMCDDA indicate that projects to introduce NSP in Portugal and Romania formally approved but never fully implemented and not routinely available [28, 29]
¹Availability of OST in Lithuania is based on 2018 data [28, 29] not available in the HIPED
²Sum of numbers of inmates on OST in each federal state: 14 (North Rhine-Westphalia, reference date 30/04/2016); 318 (Hesse, 01/10/2016); 1 (Saxony 18/01/2017); 40 (Saxony-Anhalt 31/03/2016), 37 (Saxony-Anhalt 31/03/2016). The figures collected refer to the total number of substitution treatments, not to a specific opioid addiction; 31 (Thuringia 31/12/2016); 60 (Rhineland-Palatinate 31/03/2016), 2 (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 26/01/2017); 800 (Baden-Württemberg 2016); 100 (Bremen 28/01/2017); 2 (Saarland 20/01/2017); 35 (Bavaria 31/01/2016); 1068 (Berlin 2016); 150 (Hamburg 31/01/2017); 122 (Schleswig-Holstein 01/02/2017)

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