Support the improvement of the legislation for TB patients in Romania


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2014-10-16 13:02

The over 18,000 prisoners that i closely work with in 88 correctional facilities in Zambia are dying from TB in dozens every day. The situation is not only aggressive for those co-infected with HIV but affects each and every inmate due to extreme congestion. Built to only shelter 5,250 inmates prior to the country's independence 50 years ago, only one major prison with a capacity of holding 600 prisoners has been built in 5 decades! The isolation cells, meant to shelter those in isolation after being infected with TB are equally overcrowded as prisoners escape from the congested dormitories and cells in search of spacious rooms and find themselves sharing cells with prisoners with severe TB infections that even include multi-drug resistant TB. My mineral rich-resource but very poor developing country needs to improve on legislation and other outdated policies passed over from the British colonial masters if the lives of prisoners in Zambian prisons are to be saved, save for the transmission of MDR-TB by those being discharged or pardoned and leaving prison to get reintegrated into their communities.