Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the African region: situation analysis, issues and the way forward / Regional Committee for Africa, 60
Tác giả : Regional Committee for Africa, 60
Năm xuất bản : 2011
Tùng thư :
AFR/RC60/10
Chủ đề : 1. Tuberculosis. 2. Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant. 3. Technical documents.
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Tóm tắt : | 1. Tuberculosis (TB) is a high-priority disease in the WHO African Region. The Global TBControl Report 20091 shows that, in 2007, the African Region, which accounted for an estimated12% of the world population, contributed 22% of notified TB cases. Case notification rates haveincreased from 82:100 000 in 1990 to 158:100 000 in 2007. An estimated 51% of TB patientstested in 2007 were HIV-positive, making HIV infection the single most important risk factor forTB incidence in the Region. The current TB trends need to be reversed for the African Region tomeet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).2. At its Fifty-third session in 2003, the WHO Regional Committee for Africa adoptedResolution AFR/RC53/R6 – Scaling up interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis andmalaria in the WHO African Region. Subsequently at its Fifty-fifth session in Maputo,Mozambique, in 2005, the Regional Committee declared TB an emergency in the AfricanRegion.23. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is defined as TB caused by organisms that are resistantto at least isoniazid and rifampicin. Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) is MDR-TB that isalso resistant to any one of the fluoroquinolones and to at least one of four injectable second-linedrugs (amikacin, capreomycin, kanamycin and viomycin). Between January 2007 and December2009, a total of 22 032 new MDR-TB cases were reported by 33 countries. An estimated 1501new XDR-TB cases were reported by eight countries3 during the same period. Regional Committee for Africa Sixtieth SessionMalabo, Equatorial Guinea, 30 August–3 September 2010: Provisional agenda item 7.7 |
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