3/24/11
Luanda – The regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa, Luís Gomes Sambo, affirmed that despite the fact that member states have adopted almost universally the strategy to stop tuberculosis, the implementation is feeble.
A message in the ambit of the World Tuberculosis Day (March 24) stated that 49 percent of the cases are annually detected, having 12 countries of the region, in 2008, achieved the internationally required goals recommended of a detection of at least 70 percent of new cases.
Gomes Sambo refers that WHO report on tuberculosis control indicates that in 2010 the African region (which represents only 12 percent of the world population) registered 23 percent of the total cases recorded worldwide.
WHO representative alerted that the cases connected to the increase of new challenges, such as co-infections TB/HIV and TB multi-resistance to medicine, complicates the control of the disease in the region, since about 35% of people with tuberculosis are HIV-positive.
Gomes Sambo said that there is the need for innovating actions to deal with the continuous challenges.
WHO will support countries to adopt new rapid test, which combines diagnosis in a unique test.
Gomes Sambo appealed to the national authorities to reinforce partnerships to stop tuberculosis in order to mobilize additional resources to control the disease, from government and private sectors.
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/saude/2011/2/12/WHO-considers-strategy-stop-tuberculosis-feeble,83227e18-797e-4877-b766-45a071a4922b.html
Luanda – The regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa, Luís Gomes Sambo, affirmed that despite the fact that member states have adopted almost universally the strategy to stop tuberculosis, the implementation is feeble.
A message in the ambit of the World Tuberculosis Day (March 24) stated that 49 percent of the cases are annually detected, having 12 countries of the region, in 2008, achieved the internationally required goals recommended of a detection of at least 70 percent of new cases.
Gomes Sambo refers that WHO report on tuberculosis control indicates that in 2010 the African region (which represents only 12 percent of the world population) registered 23 percent of the total cases recorded worldwide.
WHO representative alerted that the cases connected to the increase of new challenges, such as co-infections TB/HIV and TB multi-resistance to medicine, complicates the control of the disease in the region, since about 35% of people with tuberculosis are HIV-positive.
Gomes Sambo said that there is the need for innovating actions to deal with the continuous challenges.
WHO will support countries to adopt new rapid test, which combines diagnosis in a unique test.
Gomes Sambo appealed to the national authorities to reinforce partnerships to stop tuberculosis in order to mobilize additional resources to control the disease, from government and private sectors.
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/saude/2011/2/12/WHO-considers-strategy-stop-tuberculosis-feeble,83227e18-797e-4877-b766-45a071a4922b.html
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