The publication provides guidance for the staff of corrections facilities (prisons), public health services and clinical TB services in New Zealand, to enable them to carry out tasks relating to the case management of prisoners with active TB disease or with latent TB infection in corrections facilities.
The Protocol does not cover the management of prisoners with TB while they are hospitalised in a public hospital, which usually occurs only at the commencement of TB treatment, or if complications requiring re-hospitalisation occur during the course of TB treatment.
Purpose
The aim of the Protocol is to provide guidance to enable:
- an appropriate public health and clinical response to notified TB cases in prisoners
- the complete treatment of TB cases in prisoners
- follow-up and management of contacts of TB cases in corrections facilities
- treatment of LTBI in infected contacts, where indicated and when possible.