2010/2011
TUBERCULOSIS
GLOBAL FACTS- 1.
6 million TB patients knew their HIV status in
2009 compared to 1.
4 million in 2008 with the highest
HIV testing rates of TB patients in Europe (86%) Africa
(53%) and the Americas (41%).
In 55 countries,
including...
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2010/2011
TUBERCULOSIS
GLOBAL FACTS- 1.
6 million TB patients knew their HIV status in
2009 compared to 1.
4 million in 2008 with the highest
HIV testing rates of TB patients in Europe (86%) Africa
(53%) and the Americas (41%).
In 55 countries,
including 16 in Africa, at least 75% of TB patients knew
their HIV status
THE TB TARGETS FOR 2015
UN Millennium Development Goals:
to have halted and begun to reverse incidence by 2015
in comparison with 1990
Current assessment - On target globally
- 1.
7 million people died from TB (including
380 000 women) in 2009, including 380 000
people with HIV, equal to 4700 deaths a day
- Tuberculosis (TB) is contagious and airborne.
It
is a disease of poverty affecting mostly young
adults in their most productive years.
The vast
majority of TB deaths are in the developing world
- The estimated global incidence rate fell to
137 cases per 100 000 population in
2009, after peaking in 2004 at 142 cases per
100 000.
The rate is still falling but too slow
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