Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons | Zendy

Banuru Muralidhara Prasad | Zendy; Badri Thapa | Zendy; Sarabjit Chadha | Zendy; Anand Kumar Das | Zendy; Babu Entoor Ramachandran | Zendy; Subrat Kumar Mohanty | Zendy; Sripriya Pandurangan | Zendy; J. Tonsing | Zendy

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Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons

Author(s) -

Banuru Muralidhara Prasad,

Badri Thapa,

Sarabjit Chadha,

Anand Kumar Das,

Babu Entoor Ramachandran,

Subrat Kumar Mohanty,

Sripriya Pandurangan,

J. Tonsing

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2017.01.035

Subject(s) - prison , overcrowding , medicine , tuberculosis , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology , archaeology , economics , history , economic growth

Prisons are known to be a high risk environment for tuberculosis (TB) due to overcrowding, low levels of nutrition, poor infection control and lack of accessible healthcare services. India has nearly 1400 prisons housing 0.37 million inmates. However, information on, availability of diagnostic and treatment services for TB in the prison settings is limited. This study examined the availability of TB services in prisons of India. Simultaneously, prison inmates were screened for tuberculosis.

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