Johnstone-Robertson et al., 20115454. Johnstone-Robertson S, Lawn SD, Welte A, Bekker LG, Wood R. Tuberculosis in a South African prison - a transmission modelling analysis. S Afr Med J. 2011;101(11):809-13. |
South Africa |
Cross ventilation: Suggested not to close the cell windows at night and to use barred doors instead of solid doors in cells, allowing better ventilation. |
Santos et al., 20125757. Santos M, França P, Sánchez A. Manual de Intervenções Ambientais para o Controle da Tuberculose nas Prisões. Departamento Penitenciário Nacional. Ministério da Justiça 2012. |
Brazil |
Architectural solutions: Improve lighting and ventilation conditions with openings on opposite walls and ventilation on two levels on the same wall or roof. |
Brazil, 20147070. Brasil. Portaria Interministerial No 1, de 2 de janeiro de 2014. Ministério da Saúde. 2014. |
Brazil |
Prison Primary Health Care Team: Implementation of prison health teams, including doctors, nurses, and dentists. |
Sander et al., 20174949. Sander G, Murphy F. The furthest left behind: The urgent need to scale up harm reduction in prisons. Int J Prison Health. 2017;13(3-4):185-91. |
Global |
Harm reduction: Opioid substitution therapy, needle and syringe programs, overdose and withdrawal prevention, and HIV and HCV testing and treatment. |
Katyal et al., 20183838. Katyal M, Leibowitz R, Venters H. IGRA-Based Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Persons Newly Incarcerated in New York City Jails. J Correct Health Care. 2018;24(2):156-70. |
United States of America |
Latent tuberculosis infection detection: The QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) IGRA test was implemented at a women's prison and at an all-men’s prison. |
Adane et al., 20195151. Adane K, Spigt M, Winkens B, Dinant GJ. Tuberculosis case detection by trained inmate peer educators in a resource-limited prison setting in Ethiopia: a cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Global Health. 2019;7(4):482-91. |
Ethiopia |
Peer education: Prisoners receive training in identifying TB cases and then provide health education to other prisoners. |
Mabud et al., 20195959. Mabud TS, Alves MLD, Ko AI, Basu S, Walter SK, Cohen T, et al. Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modelling study from Brazil. PLoS Medicine . 2019;16(1):e1002737. |
Brazil |
Annual mass screening for TB: Identification of symptoms suggestive of the disease and diagnosis of TB. |
Sousa et al., 20205252. Sousa NR, Sandström N, Shen L, Håkansson K, Vezozzo R, Udekwu KI, et al. A fieldable electrostatic air sampler enabling tuberculosis detection in bioaerosols. Tuberculosis. 2020;120:e101896. |
Brazil |
TB Hotspot DetectOR: Collection of aerosols from environment allowing the identification of M. tuberculosis in the cough of prisoners. |
dos Santos et al., 20226464. dos Santos PCP, Santos AS, Oliveira RD, da Silva BO, Soares TR, Martinez L, et al. Pooling Sputum Samples for Efficient Mass Tuberculosis Screening in Prisons. Clin Infect Dis. 2022;74(12):2115-21. |
Brazil |
Pooling Sputum Samples: Tested prisoner sputum combinations with GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra, allowing for more frequent triage of cases, resulting in cost containment. |