Tuberculosis

Department of State
(Section 1.c. par. 14) Tuberculosis and hepatitis were epidemic in the prisons, making even short periods of incarceration potentially deadly.

Doctors Without Borders
(page 1, par.5)

But TB does not simply spread in rural districts. As convicts leave prison, they transmit the TB germs to the general population; in January, over 460 former convicts registered at the Republic Anti-Tuberculosis Dispensary... Doctors Without Borders

U.N. Integrated Regional Information Network
(page 1, par. 9)

There is an epidemic of tuberculosis in the prisons along with many other diseases.

Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
(page 9, "Conditions in Prisons and Detention Facilities", par. 1)

...As a consequence, under nourishment and diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatits are widespread, and frequently result in deaths of prisoners.

British Broadcasting Corporation
(page 1, par. 5) There are many cases of TB in Uzbek prisons but there are no official figures.

Body Health Resources Corporation
(page 1, par.1)

International organizations and human rights groups are alarmed about the increasing TB rate in Uzbekistan and other former Soviet Union countries, and they believe that overcrowded and unsanitary prisons may be one of the primary causes

Prima News
(Page 1, par. 1)

More than 80% of the prisoners in correctional colonies in the village of Pap in Namangan Region are infected with tuberculosis...