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TG Teklay Gebrecherkos
BG Baye Gelaw
BT Belay Tessema
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A cross-sectional study was conducted on four prisons in North Gondar Administrative Zone to estimate the prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis rates among prison inmates. The study was conducted from February to April 2015, at 4 prisons, namely Debark, Dabat, Chilga and Gondar towns of North Gondar zone, northwest Ethiopia. North Gondar zone has 21 weredas with 539 kebeles and 2 town administrations. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, North Gondar has a total population of 2,929,628 (1,486,040 men and 1,443,588 women). In this zone, there are one zonal and 21 wereda police stations. There are 4 large prisons that could house about 1500–3500 prisoners. They detain mainly sentenced and some pre-trial prisoners from several surrounding weredas.

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