Participatory communication for tuberculosis control in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay Comunicación participativa para el control de la tuberculosis en cárceles de Bolivia, Ecuador y Paraguay

• Main Author: Silvio Waisbord
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2010
• Subjects: Comunicación en salud; poblaciones vulnerables; salud de grupos específicos; tuberculosis; prisiones; Bolivia; Ecuador; Paraguay; Health communication; vulnerable populations; Health of Specific Groups; prisons; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Corto
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/774358b14245415d8607b10b0f8e30c6

OBJECTIVES: To assess the challenges in reducing tuberculosis (TB) in prisons in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay and propose ways to address them through communication interventions. METHODS: Challenges to two central goals of TB control-early diagnosis of positive cases and successful application of...