Incarceration and TB: the epidemic beyond prison walls

Guillermo Sequera^{1

2}, Sarita Aguirre³, Gladys Estigarribia⁴, Katharine S Walter⁵, Olivia Horna-Campos⁶, Yiran E Liu⁷, Jason R Andrews⁷, Julio Croda^{8

9

10}, Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro^{11

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13}

Affiliations

¹ Cátedra de Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asuncion, Paraguay.
² ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ National TB Programme, Asunción, Paraguay.
⁴ Universidad Nacional de Caaguazú, Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁶ Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
⁷ Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
⁹ Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹¹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain alberto.garcia-basteiro@manhica.net.
¹² Centro de Investigação em Saude de Manhiça, Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
¹³ Tuberculosis, Manhiça Health Research Centre, Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.

Editorial

Guillermo Sequera et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2024.

. 2024 Feb 21;9(2):e014722.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014722.

¹ Cátedra de Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asuncion, Paraguay.
² ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ National TB Programme, Asunción, Paraguay.
⁴ Universidad Nacional de Caaguazú, Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Paraguay.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁶ Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
⁷ Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
⁹ Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹¹ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain alberto.garcia-basteiro@manhica.net.
¹² Centro de Investigação em Saude de Manhiça, Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
¹³ Tuberculosis, Manhiça Health Research Centre, Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.

No abstract available

Keywords: Epidemiology; Health policy; Public Health; Tuberculosis.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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