Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin America – the region with the world’s fastest-growing prison population – are exacerbating tuberculosis in a region that is bucking the global trend for falling incidents of the disease, experts have warned.A study published in The Lancet Public Health journal has estimated that, contrary to previous assumptions, HIV/Aids is not the primary risk factor for tuberculosis in the region – as it remains in Africa, for example – but rather imprisonments. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/25/latin-america-tuberculosis-imprisonment-el-salvador-brazil-colombia-mexico-argentina-peru
Author : Tiago Rogero South America correspondent
Publish date : 2024-12-25 12:00:11
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Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates
