[afro-nets] Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2006

["Claudio Schuftan" <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2006
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Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2006

Progress on targets for TB control

World Health Organization (WHO) / World Health Organization (WHO), 2006 This World Health Organization annual report provides an update on the results of national tuberculosis (TB) control programmes, focusing on 22 countries where the burden of TB is high. Although both the prevalence of TB and mortality rates due to TB have fallen globally between 1990 and 2004, TB incidence has continued to rise in Africa, following the spread of HIV. 53 per cent of cases were detected in 2004, and this rate is likely to fall short of the 70 per cent target set by the World Health Assembly for 2005. The treatment of drug-resistant TB is also still inadequate in many countries.

The report argues that, although laboratory networks have expanded, services need to be improved in many countries. Areas requiring special attention include national reference laboratories, external quality assurance for all laboratories, and the development of capacity and infrastructure for culture and for drug susceptibility testing. It also suggests that implementing new WHO guidelines will improve the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB cases. It notes that, whilst wealthier high-burden countries provide most of the funding needed for TB control in their countries, others rely on grants from donors. For 2006, the high-burden countries reported a funding gap of US$141 million in paying for their TB programmes.

Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing

WHO Report 2006
WHO/HTM/TB/2006.362

http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2006/en/index.html

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Claudio Schuftan
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