TB declared a national emergency in Mozambique
By, Mail & Guardian Online, February 27, 2007
The Mozambican government has declared tuberculosis (TB) as a national emergency, Vista News reported on Monday.
The Health Minister, Ivo Garrido, in an interview with the national radio service, Radio Mozambique, said public hospitals had limited capacities to treat the more than 35 000 cases that were recorded in the country last year.
Only 20% of public hospitals countrywide had the capacity to diagnose the disease.
The disease would continue to be a problem for the next 15 years, said Garrido.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that in sub-Saharan Africa nearly 400 people in every 100 000 have TB, which killed nearly seven million people in Africa in 2004.
The global health agency also noted that the high prevailing rate of TB infections in the region were pushed by the high rate of HIV/Aids.
"Both the highest number of deaths and the highest mortality per capita [of TB] are in the WHO Africa region, where HIV has led to rapid growth of the TB pandemic, and increases the likelihood of dying from TB," said WHO in a fact sheet on the disease. -- Sapa
Source: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=300254
The Mozambican government has declared tuberculosis (TB) as a national emergency, Vista News reported on Monday.
The Health Minister, Ivo Garrido, in an interview with the national radio service, Radio Mozambique, said public hospitals had limited capacities to treat the more than 35 000 cases that were recorded in the country last year.
Only 20% of public hospitals countrywide had the capacity to diagnose the disease.
The disease would continue to be a problem for the next 15 years, said Garrido.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that in sub-Saharan Africa nearly 400 people in every 100 000 have TB, which killed nearly seven million people in Africa in 2004.
The global health agency also noted that the high prevailing rate of TB infections in the region were pushed by the high rate of HIV/Aids.
"Both the highest number of deaths and the highest mortality per capita [of TB] are in the WHO Africa region, where HIV has led to rapid growth of the TB pandemic, and increases the likelihood of dying from TB," said WHO in a fact sheet on the disease. -- Sapa
Source: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=300254
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