Pitfalls of tuberculosis programmes in prisons.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Reyes, Hernan; Coninx, Rudi
- Source
- BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition). 11/29/97, Vol. 315 Issue 7120, p1447-1450. 4p. 1 Illustration.
- Subject
- *TUBERCULOSIS prevention
*PRISONERS
*DISEASES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0959-8146
Discusses the pitfalls of tuberculosis prevention programs in prisons. Prisons as neglected institutions; Neglect and violence as factors for contagion; Uncontrolled spread of tuberculosis in prisons; Ways in which prisons may be an ideal environment for treatment of the disease. INSETS: The Baku Declaration and its origins.;Power structures in prisons in the former Soviet Union.;Peru.;Ethiopia.