CAT/OP/BRA/2/Add.1 117. Every state in the federation has now joined the Prison Health Plan, making for a total of 271 health-care teams spread over 239 correctional facilities and attending to a significant share of the prison population (around 150,000 persons), as the figure below shows. The Plan accounts for health coverage of 30.69 per cent of the prison population, offering preventive action, promotion or treatment for problems such as dental health, women’s health, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, mental health, screening for tuberculosis, hypertension and diabetes, leprosy vaccination and taking samples for laboratory tests; coverage also involves basic pharmaceutical care, the objective being to give priority to comprehensive care. The Brazilian State recognizes the need to expand the programme, since all citizens have the right to health. Figure I Prison system health-care teams: year-on-year increase Source: CNES/DATASUS/MS. 118. To supplement the Prison Health Plan, a new policy, the National Policy on Comprehensive Health Care for Persons Deprived of their Liberty in the Prison System, was established under the Unified Health System (SUS), by Interministerial Ordinance No. 1/2014 of 2 January 2014 (annex VIII). 119. The objective of the new prison health policy is to guarantee persons deprived of liberty access to the comprehensive care offered by Brazil’s unified public health-care system (SUS). The policy objectives are: (a) Promotion of citizenship and inclusion of persons deprived of their liberty by working with the different sectors of social development, such as education, work and security; (b) Effective, ongoing and quality comprehensive responses to the health needs of the prison population, with an emphasis on preventive care but without prejudice to curative services; (c) Containment or reduction of the medical conditions most commonly found among the prison population; GE.14-42059 27