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Tuberculosis in correctional facilities
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January 1994
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Description:1985, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has been sponsoring national surveys of HlV/AIDS in correctional facilities. In the lIlid-1980s, as the AIDS epidemic acceler- ated among communities o f poor, minority, and drug using Americans, tuberculosis was also making a comeback after several decades o f steady decline. The resurgent tuberculo- sis ofthe late 1980s and the early 1990s is closely associated with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS and particularly afflicts the poor, inner-city minorities, and injection drug users. Since these populations are overrepresented among correctional inmates, tuberculosis has become a serious problem in correctional facilities. Not only do inmate popUlations contain concentrations of persons at high risk for both TB and HIV, but the facilities themselves may be high-risk settings for TB transmission because oftheir crowding and poor ventilation.
Prepared for the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, by Abt Associates Inc., under contract #OJP-89-C~009 and Cooperative Agreement #92-IJ-CX-K016. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department ofJustice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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