TY - JOUR
T1 - Prioritizing persons deprived of liberty in global guidelines for tuberculosis preventive treatment
AU - Narayan, Aditya
AU - Salindri, Argita D.
AU - Keshavjee, Salmaan
AU - Muyoyeta, Monde
AU - Velen, Kavindhran
AU - Rueda, Zulma V.
AU - Croda, Julio
AU - Charalambous, Salome
AU - García-Basteiro, Alberto L.
AU - Shenoi, Sheela V.
AU - Gonçalves, Crhistinne C. M.
AU - Ferreira da Silva, Liliane
AU - Possuelo, Lia G.
AU - Aguirre, Sarita
AU - Estigarribia, Gladys
AU - Sequera, Guillermo
AU - Grandjean, Louis
AU - Telisinghe, Lily
AU - Herce, Michael E.
AU - Dockhorn, Fernanda
AU - Altice, Frederick L.
AU - Andrews, Jason R.
N1 - Publisher 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.
PY - 2023/10/3
Y1 - 2023/10/3
N2 - Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) are disproportionately impacted by tuberculosis, with high incidence rates and often limited access to diagnostics, treatment, and preventive measures. The World Health Organization (WHO) expanded its recommendations for tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) to many high-risk populations, but their guidance does not include PDL, and most low- and middle-income countries do not routinely provide edforthoseusedthroughoutthetext TPT in prisons. :Pleaseverifythatallentriesarecorrectlyabbreviated: Recent studies demonstrate high acceptability and completion rates of short-course TPT regimens in jails and prisons; costs of these regimens have been markedly reduced through international agreements, making this an opportune for further expanding their use. We argue that PDL should be a priority group for TPT in national guidelines and discuss implementation considerations and resource needs for TPT programs in carceral facilities. Scaling access to TPT for PDL is important for reducing disease and transmission in this population; it is also critical to advancing an equitable response to tuberculosis.
AB - Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) are disproportionately impacted by tuberculosis, with high incidence rates and often limited access to diagnostics, treatment, and preventive measures. The World Health Organization (WHO) expanded its recommendations for tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) to many high-risk populations, but their guidance does not include PDL, and most low- and middle-income countries do not routinely provide edforthoseusedthroughoutthetext TPT in prisons. :Pleaseverifythatallentriesarecorrectlyabbreviated: Recent studies demonstrate high acceptability and completion rates of short-course TPT regimens in jails and prisons; costs of these regimens have been markedly reduced through international agreements, making this an opportune for further expanding their use. We argue that PDL should be a priority group for TPT in national guidelines and discuss implementation considerations and resource needs for TPT programs in carceral facilities. Scaling access to TPT for PDL is important for reducing disease and transmission in this population; it is also critical to advancing an equitable response to tuberculosis.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004288
DO - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004288
M3 - Article
C2 - 37788448
SN - 1549-1277
VL - 20
JO - PLoS medicine
JF - PLoS medicine
IS - 10
M1 - e1004288
ER -