Prison Health Services Strategy 2.0: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is very pleased to present this newly revised Second Version of the Prison Health Services Strategy (PHSS) 2015/1394.

Prisoners and juveniles are part of general community of Afghanistan. Based on the laws they are kept for a specific period of time in detention places. All rights of the prisoners and juveniles detainees are in place. Because of that the MoPH created prison health department according to its policies and strategies. The MoPH developed PHS strategy and package in order to provide health services to this vulnerable group of people.

This revision is based on the increased in the number of prisoners, prisoners’ health needs, and lessons learnt from the implementation of the first version of the Prison Health Services (PHS) Strategy.