Although there are over one million people in prison in sub-Saharan African, research activity on prison health is historically of low priority and generally confined to the gathering of rapid situational assessment of infectious diseases. This paper in the Lancet Global Health comments on the challenges in prison health for this region which pose potential threats to the efforts achieved in the HIV and tuberculosis response with the general population outside of prisons.

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