… the decrease in cases in the general population in South America from 2011 to 2017.
Tuberculosis cases increased in both the prisons and the … substantial increases in prisons (figure …

… in reporting of tuberculosis notifications and outcomes in prisons and … the commitment and
investments needed from countries to address the continued crisis of tuberculosis in prisons. …

… The disparity between prison and civilian TB control … and the lack of policies to safeguard
prison healthcare are the … was the lack of routinely updated data on the development of TB in …

… in specific populations, such as prisoners. The aim of this study was to analyze the
epidemiological and operational indicators of tuberculosis in prisoners in a southern region of Brazil. …

… The second half of the last century saw significant progress in TB control, but prisons
were again at the centre of the TB epidemic in the last two decades of that century [4]. …

… Our findings show that the TB epidemic in prisons represents one of the … the magnitude of
TB crisis within the prison system in Paraguay. They are useful to guide the development of TB …

… networks and across the state. Our … that prisons play an outsized role in driving the tuberculosis
epidemic in Mato Grosso do Sul; the extremely high risk of tuberculosis created by prison …

… The occurrence of TB in prisons is an alarming public health problem in many … of the
countries with a higher TB prison burden (total prison population), described in the World Prison …

… of tuberculosis was 1810 cases per 100 000 prisoners. We also found that the incidence
rate ratio between prisons and the … the IRR of tuberculosis among prisoners compared to the …

… Although Li and colleagues report the relative proportion of tuberculosis cases from … Brazil,
the literature points towards prisons being one of the main drivers of tuberculosis in the Latin …