Prevention (TB)

Jails Must Do Better Job of Treating TB Infected

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 23rd, 1998

Jails are important screening sites for tuberculosis infection, but they are proving to be inadequate facilities for administering preventive medications.

"The responsibility for ensuring that preventive therapy is completed rests in liaisons between correctional health services and the public health system, not only for the safety of the community but also because no effective public health planning will be done until those who are incarcerated are viewed as part of the community," Jacqueline Peterson Tulsky and colleagues from the University of California Department of Community Health Systems wrote ("Screening for Tuberculosis in Jail and Clinic Follow-Up after...

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