Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 47
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Prison authorities and staff do not foster a supportive environment for women prisoners' timely access to medical services, failing to attend to complaints of ill health with urgency and sometimes disregarding prisoners' ailments altogether. For example in the United States, patients with chronic health concerns complain of long delays before seeing a doctor (A/HRC/17/26/Add.5 and Corr.1). Female detainees in Zambia receive little medical attention for pre- and postnatal treatment and care (A/HRC/17/26/Add.4).
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences