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From the first day of imprisonment, prisoners are exposed to and expose other prisoners to various communicable diseases, many of which are vaccine-preventable. The risk of acquiring these diseases during the prison sentence exceeds that of the general population. This excess risk may be explained by various causes; some due to the structural and logistical problems of prisons and others to habitual or acquired behaviors during imprisonment.

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HIV-risk populations are over-represented in prisons. It is very important to identify late HIV infection diagnosis in this setting from a public health perspective. The objectives of this study are to estimate the prevalence of late diagnosis and identify the predictive factors among inmates of two prisons in Barcelona from 2010 to 2012, and to review late diagnosis in other prisons.

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The prison population is a high-risk group for tuberculosis (TB). This investigation aimed to study predictive factors of treatment adherence among prisoners involved in a pilot programme of supervised treatment. The study included TB patients from the Men's Penitentiary Center of Barcelona (MPCB) in 1995.

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