Despite increasing rates of tuberculosis in prisons across the globe, current WHO TB prevention guidelines fail to reach incarcerated populations

Programs should instead prioritize them, argue a group of researchers from Stanford, Harvard, UCL and a range of other global institutions.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

 

IMAGE: OPEN CELLS INSIDE A PRISON IN PARAGUAY. view more 

CREDIT: JASON ANDREWS (CC-BY 4.0, HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/)

Despite increasing rates of tuberculosis in prisons across the globe, current WHO TB prevention guidelines fail to reach incarcerated populations. Programs should instead prioritize them, argue a group of researchers from Stanford, Harvard, UCL and a range of other global institutions.

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Article Title: Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment

Author Countries: United States

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

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JOURNAL

PLoS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004288 

METHOD OF RESEARCH

Commentary/editorial

A mural from a women's prison in Brazil.

CREDIT

Jason Andrews (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)