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Public release date: 19-Mar-1999
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Research shows that more people are dying of tuberculosis today than ever before; TB accounts for one-third of all AIDS-related deaths worldwide; and TB is the single biggest killer worldwide of young women.
Studies also show correctional facilities are high-risk settings for tuberculosis transmission and present a public health problem for correctional facility employees, inmates, the communities to which inmates are released and where employees live and work.
As part of World TB Day, a training course for health care staff in California state prisons and local health departments will be offered in Fresno on March 24 and 25.
In conjunction with this event, a press conference will be held to discuss how correctional health impacts the public health of the entire community and the connection between HIV and TB.
| WHO: | Gisela Schecter, M.D., M.P.H., of the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center in San Francisco, and other speakers. |
| WHAT: | World TB Day press conference on TB and other health issues in correctional institutions. |
| DATE: | Wednesday, March 24, 1999 |
| TIME: | 10:15 a.m. |
| PLACE: | Piccadilly Inn University, Library Room, 4961 N. Cedar Ave., Fresno. |
The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center is a joint project of the San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF and is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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