Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment
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Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment
Abstract
In this Policy Forum piece, Aditya Narayan and colleagues discuss the challenges and opportunities for tuberculosis preventive treatment in carceral settings.
Copyright: © 2023 Narayan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Conflict of interest statement
The spouse of SS was employed by Merck Pharmaceuticals 1997-2007 and retains stock in his retirement account. There is no conflict of interest with the submitted work, but is included in the interest of full disclosure. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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