Global tuberculosis control surveillance, planning, financing : who report 2008
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 fi nding fi rst 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 Stop TB Strategy is WHO's recommended approach to reducing the burden of TB in line with global targets.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Geneva, Switzerland World Health Organization
2008
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| Subjects: | Financiamiento, Tuberculosis pulmonar, Medicina preventiva, Indicadores de salud, |
| Online Access: | http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/who2008globaltbreport_en.pdf |
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