| Summary |
The 9th World Health Organization (WHO) annual report on surveillance, planning and financing for TB control includes data on case notifications and treatment outcomes from all national TB control programmes (NTPs) that have reported to WHO, together with an analysis of plans, budgets, expenditures and progress in DOTS expansion for 22 high-burden countries (HBCs).
Ten consecutive years of data (19942003) are now available to assess progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) for TB control. The five MDG targets directly relevant to TB control are: by
2005, to detect 70% of new smearpositive cases and successfully treat 85% of these cases by 2015, to have halted and begun to reverse incidence between 1990 and 2015, to halve TB prevalence and deaths rates. |
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Improving case detection and treatment
A total of 199 countries reported to WHO on their strategies for TB control, and on TB case notifications and/or treatment outcomes.
Using surveillance and survey data to update estimates of incidence, we calculate that there were 8.8 million new cases of TB in 2003 (140/100 000 population), of which 3.9 million (62/100 000) were smearpositive and 674 000 (11/100 000) were infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There were 15.4 million prevalent cases (245/100 000), of which 6.9 million were smear-positive (109/100 000). An estimated 1.7 million people (28/100 000) died from TB in 2003, including those coinfected with HIV (229 000). |
| Publication Webpage |
http://www.who.int/tb/ |
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Keywords: TB. |
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