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Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected impacts of policy alternatives: A mathematical modeling study

2024-04-24

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Tuberculosis incidence is increasing in Latin America, where the incarcerated population has nearly quadrupled since 1990. The full impact of incarceration on the tuberculosis epidemic, accounting for effects beyond prisons, has never been quantified. <h4>Methods</h4> We calibrated dynamic compartmental transmission models to historical and contemporary data from Argentina, Br...

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Literature Corpus work: 6dd48595-aaa6-5dad-ad82-2a944bbf2c5f
DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.23.24306238

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