2024
DOI: 10.1186/s41182-024-00623-2
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Prevalence and associated factors of TB and HIV coinfections among adult inmates with presumptive pulmonary TB in a Kenyan prison

Suleiman Athuman Mwatenga,
Ali A. Musa,
Margaret W. Muturi
et al.

Abstract: Background Tuberculosis (TB) is more than ten times higher in prisons compared to the general population, and HIV-infected persons are at increased risk of developing active TB and death. In the World Health Organization (WHO) African region, however, where the TB and HIV coinfections are highest, and prisons rarely factored in national disease surveillance, epidemiological data to inform TB control interventions in correctional facilities is limited. In this study, we assessed the prevalence o… Show more

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