Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Asia heads of record levels of drug-resistant TB:
March 18, 2010 - drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is now at record levels with Asia to bear the brunt of this epidemic, says the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) report released today also calls for improving the diagnosis of the disease.
In some parts of the world, one out of every four people with TB gets sick with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs, according to the WHO Multidrug-wide and drug-resistant TB: 2010 Global Report on surveillance and response.
Nearly one third of the 440,000 people with multidrug-resistant form of the disease (MDR-TB) died in 2008, the report said.
Nearly half of all MDR-TB and MDR-TB occurred in China, where the first drug resistance survey was conducted at the national level, and India. In Africa, and is estimated to 69,000 cases surfaced, the vast majority of which went undiagnosed.
As the report indicates there is a gap in the efforts to combat tuberculosis in Eastern Europe. In one area in northwest Russia, approximately 28 per cent of all people who suffer from T
B in 2008 was multi-drug resistant form of ¬ - beating the previous record unfortunate 22 per cent set by Azerbaijan in 2007.
But in areas of Oriel, outside Moscow, and Tomsk in Siberia, the World Health Organization has so-called "significant decline" in drug-resistant TB in about five years. Estonia and neighboring Latvia also reverse rates of the disease, while Hong Kong and the United States and praised for successes continued in the fight against drug-resistant TB.
Even in the presence of serious epidemics, governments and partners can turn around the drug-resistant TB through strengthening efforts to control the disease and the implementation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the report noted.
In most other countries, progress remains slow, with 60 per cent of the cases reported and treated.
To intensify their efforts, the report called for an urgent improvements in laboratory facilities, and drug treatment more effective and shorter than the systems during the past year.
The report also pointed to the need for rapid diagnosis, and only 7 per cent of TB patients, MDR is believed that diagnosis all over the world.
The report was released ahead of World TB Day, which features a year on 24 March.
Reduce HIV incidence and mortality of tuberculosis is one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals) ¬ - a list of eight targets for reducing poverty agreed by world leaders in 2000.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for accelerated progress towards meeting the deadlines for 2015.
In some parts of the world, one out of every four people with TB gets sick with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs, according to the WHO Multidrug-wide and drug-resistant TB: 2010 Global Report on surveillance and response.
Nearly one third of the 440,000 people with multidrug-resistant form of the disease (MDR-TB) died in 2008, the report said.
Nearly half of all MDR-TB and MDR-TB occurred in China, where the first drug resistance survey was conducted at the national level, and India. In Africa, and is estimated to 69,000 cases surfaced, the vast majority of which went undiagnosed.
As the report indicates there is a gap in the efforts to combat tuberculosis in Eastern Europe. In one area in northwest Russia, approximately 28 per cent of all people who suffer from T
B in 2008 was multi-drug resistant form of ¬ - beating the previous record unfortunate 22 per cent set by Azerbaijan in 2007.But in areas of Oriel, outside Moscow, and Tomsk in Siberia, the World Health Organization has so-called "significant decline" in drug-resistant TB in about five years. Estonia and neighboring Latvia also reverse rates of the disease, while Hong Kong and the United States and praised for successes continued in the fight against drug-resistant TB.
Even in the presence of serious epidemics, governments and partners can turn around the drug-resistant TB through strengthening efforts to control the disease and the implementation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the report noted.
In most other countries, progress remains slow, with 60 per cent of the cases reported and treated.
To intensify their efforts, the report called for an urgent improvements in laboratory facilities, and drug treatment more effective and shorter than the systems during the past year.
The report also pointed to the need for rapid diagnosis, and only 7 per cent of TB patients, MDR is believed that diagnosis all over the world.
The report was released ahead of World TB Day, which features a year on 24 March.
Reduce HIV incidence and mortality of tuberculosis is one of the goals of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals) ¬ - a list of eight targets for reducing poverty agreed by world leaders in 2000.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for accelerated progress towards meeting the deadlines for 2015.
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