Vietnam meets WHO’s tuberculosis treatment target
By, Nhan Dan, January 18, 2008
Vietnam has, over the past 9 years, constantly obtained the World Health Organisation (WHO) targets of detecting 70 percent of tuberculosis cases and curing 85 percent of the patients.
The statistics were released at a conference in Hanoi on January 17 to review a national project on TB prevention and control and the Global Fund for TB Prevention. The event was hosted by the National Anti-Tuberculosis Programme and the Ministry of Public Health.
However, participants at the conference were told that TB infection rate remains high in Vietnam, with that among young people at the age of 15- 24 being on the rise.
Vietnam now ranks 13th among the 22 countries with the highest number of TB patients in the world.
According to WHO, in 2007, the newly-contracted case rate per 100,000 people was 175 in Vietnam, with the mortality rate per 100,000 people being 23.
The national anti-TB programme up to 2011 aims to lower the death, infection and spread rates in the community, while increasing the opportunities to access health care services for poor and ethnic minority people.
Under the programme, a strategy will be mapped out to increase co-ordination between the public and private health care sectors in the fight against TB in urban areas in 12 provinces and cities.
According to Dr Dinh Ngoc Si, head of the anti TB project’s steering board and director of the National Hospital of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, the State will spend VND 70 billon, or 10 percent increase, on anti-TB programme in 2008.
The programme will continue to receive financial and technical assistances from governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as financial resources from the Dutch government and the Global Fund for anti-TB/HIV prevention programme. (VNA)
Source: http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/180108/life_tb.htm
Vietnam has, over the past 9 years, constantly obtained the World Health Organisation (WHO) targets of detecting 70 percent of tuberculosis cases and curing 85 percent of the patients.
The statistics were released at a conference in Hanoi on January 17 to review a national project on TB prevention and control and the Global Fund for TB Prevention. The event was hosted by the National Anti-Tuberculosis Programme and the Ministry of Public Health.
However, participants at the conference were told that TB infection rate remains high in Vietnam, with that among young people at the age of 15- 24 being on the rise.
Vietnam now ranks 13th among the 22 countries with the highest number of TB patients in the world.
According to WHO, in 2007, the newly-contracted case rate per 100,000 people was 175 in Vietnam, with the mortality rate per 100,000 people being 23.
The national anti-TB programme up to 2011 aims to lower the death, infection and spread rates in the community, while increasing the opportunities to access health care services for poor and ethnic minority people.
Under the programme, a strategy will be mapped out to increase co-ordination between the public and private health care sectors in the fight against TB in urban areas in 12 provinces and cities.
According to Dr Dinh Ngoc Si, head of the anti TB project’s steering board and director of the National Hospital of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, the State will spend VND 70 billon, or 10 percent increase, on anti-TB programme in 2008.
The programme will continue to receive financial and technical assistances from governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as financial resources from the Dutch government and the Global Fund for anti-TB/HIV prevention programme. (VNA)
Source: http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/180108/life_tb.htm
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