Overall,only 50% of PDL released during TB therapy completed treatment successfully within 8 months. These findings highlight the critical need to develop & invest in systems for supportive transitional care. Work w/Yasmine Mabene @yiranliu.bsky.social @juliocroda.bsky.social @josebampi.bsky.social

The risk of unfavorable outcomes was 40% higher among those transferred during treatment and 60% higher among those released during treatment. Those released during the intensive phase (first two months) of therapy had twice the risk of poor outcomes. 4/5

In this new study, by linking TB notification data with incarceration and mortality databases, we found that one-third of individuals who were treated for TB in prisons were transferred to another prison or released during therapy. 3/5
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Gaps in medical care at this transition also threaten the health of PDL. While incarcerated individuals have better TB outcomes than the general population in Brazil, outcomes for individuals who are released while on treatment has been less clear. 2/5

We developed a very low-cost, low-complexity approach that leverages colorimetric detection of Salmonella Typhi bacteriophages to monitor its distribution in wastewater, with demonstration data from Nepal, Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Niger. Results now published here:
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