1/5th of drug resistant TB patients live in India
By, Howrah News Service, March 24, 2008
Nearly one-fifth of the world’s TB patients, who have acquired multi drug resistant tuberculosis, are in India.
Presenting a bleak picture of the country’s national TB control programme, the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report released on Monday has warned that ‘’rising multi drug resistant TB’’ could ‘’ruin’’ India’s efforts to control tuberculosis.
According to the report, India and China record the highest number of TB cases globally. The other high-burden countries are Bangladesh, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand.
Out of the 22 countries that record TB globally, these five countries together have over two million cases or 95 per cent of all cases globally, the report has said.
Commenting on India’s performance in the fight against TB, the report said, "The data for the cohort of infectious TB patients completing their treatments in 2006 for the first time or repeating it after previous failures or defaults shows less than optimal results."
It said that defaults and treatment failures, both among first time treatment seekers and among re-treatment cases raises the probability of multi drug resistance.
"Achieving universal coverage of treatment services is not enough; it needs to be matched by consistent, universally accepted standards of treatment outcomes," said the report.
India has continued to report high morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis and as many as 1.39 million cases were reported in 2006, said the report on tuberculosis in the South East Asia region.
In 2005, more than 3.2 lakh deaths were reported due to tuberculosis in the country, it said.
The region, with 4.97 million TB cases, carries over one-third of the global burden of TB, said the report. It was revealed that most cases occur in the age group of 15-54 years.
Source: http://howrah.org/india_news/7917.html
Nearly one-fifth of the world’s TB patients, who have acquired multi drug resistant tuberculosis, are in India.
Presenting a bleak picture of the country’s national TB control programme, the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report released on Monday has warned that ‘’rising multi drug resistant TB’’ could ‘’ruin’’ India’s efforts to control tuberculosis.
According to the report, India and China record the highest number of TB cases globally. The other high-burden countries are Bangladesh, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand.
Out of the 22 countries that record TB globally, these five countries together have over two million cases or 95 per cent of all cases globally, the report has said.
Commenting on India’s performance in the fight against TB, the report said, "The data for the cohort of infectious TB patients completing their treatments in 2006 for the first time or repeating it after previous failures or defaults shows less than optimal results."
It said that defaults and treatment failures, both among first time treatment seekers and among re-treatment cases raises the probability of multi drug resistance.
"Achieving universal coverage of treatment services is not enough; it needs to be matched by consistent, universally accepted standards of treatment outcomes," said the report.
India has continued to report high morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis and as many as 1.39 million cases were reported in 2006, said the report on tuberculosis in the South East Asia region.
In 2005, more than 3.2 lakh deaths were reported due to tuberculosis in the country, it said.
The region, with 4.97 million TB cases, carries over one-third of the global burden of TB, said the report. It was revealed that most cases occur in the age group of 15-54 years.
Source: http://howrah.org/india_news/7917.html
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