Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180)

11.45am – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins

Workshop Session

Mozambique’s high burden of tuberculosis (TB) impacts delivering healthcare in its prisons. Our project uses an integrated care model to strengthen the process by which incarcerated people with TB are identified, treated, and linked to care. Program planning depends on an accurate understanding of baseline conditions, and this has informed our prison to community program design. As a result of our health blitz of 6000 individuals in the first three months of operation, we anticipate prison prevalence of TB and associated co-morbidities are higher than currently documented. We anticipate that healthcare activities, including peer mentoring and disease prevention strategies (e.g. consideration of PREP/condoms etc.) will be introduced as a result of the program interventions, that access to services will increase, and that staff and detainee stigma will reduce. Please come and join us to understand what we did, and to make suggestions for next steps!