Three quarters of one French prison population needed immunisation against hepatitis B

Abstract

See pp 18, 21, 30, 65 Editor—From March to December 1995, 411 prisoners sent to Marseilles prison were invited to participate in a programme of vaccination against hepatitis B. A face to face questionnaire was administered by a doctor. In agreement with a previous study,1 injecting and sexual risk behaviours during the past 12 months were reported frequently by the 391 prisoners (95%) who participated in the study: 164 reported having had more than one sexual partner, 40/308 reported having had at least …