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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Dispatch

Treatment Outcomes for Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Among Persons Deprived of Liberty, Uganda, 2020

Deus LukoyeComments to Author , Julius N. Kalamya, Anna Colletar Awor, Gail Gustavson, Joseph Kabanda, Odile Ferroussier-Davis, Charles Kajoba, Azaria Kanyamibwa, Leonard Marungu, Stavia Turyahabwe, Simon Muchuro, Lisa Mills, Emilio Dirlikov, and Lisa J. Nelson
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kampala, Uganda (D. Lukoye, J.N. Kalamya, A.C. Awor, G. Gustavson, J. Kabanda, L. Mills, E. Dirlikov, L.J. Nelson); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (O. Ferroussier-Davis); Uganda Prisons Service, Kampala (C. Kajoba, A. Kanyamibwa, L. Marungu); Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala (S. Turyahabwe, S. Muchuro)

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Table 1

Characteristics and treatment outcomes among persons deprived of liberty who had TB disease in Uganda prisons, January–December 2020*

Variable Total, no. (%) Successful treatment, no. (%) Unsuccessful treatment, no. (%) Crude OR (95% CI) p value aOR (95% CI) p value
Patient sex
F 19 (1.7) 18 (94.7) 1 (5.2) 0.4 (0.06–3.12) 0.39 0.5 (0.07–3.88) 0.51
M
 1,098 (98.3)
 967 (88.2)
 131 (11.8)
 Referent
Referent
Age, y
<35 858 (76.8) 784 (91.4) 74 (8.6) 1.2 (0.83–1.73) 0.34 1.1 (0.76–1.63) 0.58
>35
 259 (23.2)
 202 (78.0)
 57 (22.0)
 Referent
Referent
Patient category
New 1,035 (92.7) 912 (88.1) 123 (11.9) 1.2 (0.57–2.58) 0.61 1.5 (0.66–3.54) 0.32
Previously treated
 82 (7.3)
 74 (90.2)
 8 (9.8)
 Referent
Referent
TB form
Pulmonary, laboratory confirmed† 631 (56.5) 548 (86.8) 83 (13.2) 1.6 (1.06–2.40) 0.03 2.2 (1.03–4.81) 0.04
Extrapulmonary 56 (5.0) 46 (82.1) 10 (17.9) 2.3 (1.07–4.92) 0.02 1.7 (1.11–2.54) 0.014
Pulmonary, clinical diagnosis
 428 (38.5)
 391 (91.7)
 37 (8.6)
 Referent
Referent
HIV status, n = 1,116‡
Negative 776 (69.7) 683 (88.0) 93 (11.9) 0.9 (0.62–1.39) 0.72 0.9 (0.57–1.46) 0.703
Positive
 338 (30.3)
 300 (88.8)
 38 (11.2)
 Referent
Referent
Length of incarceration before treatment
<6 mo 908 (81.4) 787 (86.7) 121 (13.3) 3.0 (1.58–5.91) 0.0010 3.1 (1.60–6.11) 0.0008
>6 mo 208 (18.6) 198 (95.2) 10 (4.8) Referent Referent

*aOR, adjusted odds ratio; TB, tuberculosis. †Pulmonary TB was confirmed by bacteriologic laboratory tests. ‡Data are for a total of 1,116 patients with TB disease who had documented HIV status.

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