A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 33 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government Response bedding. The listed establishments are fitted with the necessary sanitary facilities and other amenities to meet all the needs of the detainees. The health and hygiene conditions and utilities in facilities of the criminal corrections system are regularly checked, at least once every quarter, by public health officials. The public health situation in detention facilities is stable and regularly monitored. During 2006, there were no outbreaks of infectious diseases. The tuberculosis infection rate is steadily dropping: according to final figures for 2005, there were 406 cases per 100,000 detainees, representing a 35 per cent drop from the 2004 levels. Figures for the first six months of 2006 show the downward trend in infections continuing. In 2005, tuberculosis infection rates dropped in all establishments listed by the Special Rapporteur: they dropped by 52 per cent in correctional colony No. 11, by 68 per cent in correctional colony No. 17, by 45 per cent in correctional colony No. 19 and by 89 per cent in correctional colony No. 20. In the pretrial detention centres and the compulsory rehabilitation centres a large proportion of tuberculosis sufferers are found to be already infected when they are admitted to the facilities. There are no cases of detainees infected with an active form of tuberculosis being held together with healthy detainees. Where there is any suspicion that detainees may be infected with tuberculosis, they are

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