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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.

Despite increasing rates of tuberculosis in prisons across the globe, current WHO TB prevention guidelines fail to reach incarcerated populations
2023-10-03
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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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[Press-News.org] 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.