[VNPH Family] PHA-Exch> WHO Report 2008 - Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <rugl...@paho.org>
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WHO Report 2008 - Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing

World Health Organization Report 2008
WHO/HTM/TB/2008.393

Website: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2008/summary/en/index.html

"….WHO's report on Global TB Control compiles data from over 200 countries and territories each year, monitoring the scale and direction of TB epidemics, implementation and impact of the Stop TB Strategy, and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of illness and death worldwide, especially in Asia and Africa. Globally, 9.2 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths from TB occurred in 2006, of which 0.7 million cases and 0.2 million deaths were in HIV-positive people. Population growth has boosted these numbers compared with those reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) for previous years.

More positively, and reinforcing a finding first reported in 2007, the number of new cases per capita appears to have been falling globally since 2003, and in all six WHO regions except the European Region where rates are approximately stable. If this trend is sustained, Millennium Development Goal 6, to have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of TB, will be achieved well before the target date of 2015. Four regions are also on track to halve prevalence and death rates by 2015 compared with 1990 levels, in line with targets set by the Stop TB Partnership. Africa and Europe are not on track to reach these targets, following large increases in the incidence of TB during the 1990s. At current rates of progress these regions will prevent the targets being achieved globally…."

The report

:: Summary
:: Key findings
:: Introduction
:: Chapter 1 The global TB epidemic and progress in control
:: Chapter 2 Implementing the Stop TB Strategy
:: Chapter 3 Financing TB control
:: Conclusions
:: Annex 1 - Profiles of high-burden countries
:: Annex 2 - Methods
:: Annex 3 - The Stop TB Strategy, case reports, treatment outcomes and estimates of TB burden

The key findings also available in different languages

:: Arabic
:: Chinese
:: French
:: Russian
:: Spanish