TUBERCULOSIS: US helps Indonesia fight tuberculosis threat

03/24/2011 JAKARTA: Indonesia and the United States have signed a new partnership on the control of Tuberculosis and preventing drug resistance.
Miles Toder, acting US Agency for International Development (Usaid) mission director, said Wednesday that the US would provide support for Indonesia’s efforts in tackling Tuberculosis.
The program has prioritized 11 high-risk provinces and districts, where it will increase diagnostic and laboratory capacity, manage drug supplies, improve access to quality care, and health systems.
He said the US government was providing more than US$4.3 billion globally to fight Tuberculosis, and that Indonesia was one of its grantees.
Tuberculosis remains a major global public health problem, with 9.4 million new cases and more than 1.7 million deaths in 2009. Indonesia has the fifth highest Tuberculosis rate in the world.
“The only way to prevent Tuberculosis is to ensure that those with active Tuberculosis are promptly diagnosed, begin treatment as soon as possible and successfully complete the treatment,” Toder said. Without treatment, Tuberculosis has a higher than 50 percent death rate. — JP
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TUBERCULOSIS: Indonesia: stas improvement

 02/25/2011
JAKARTA: After 10 years of holding status as the world’s third-largest country with tuberculosis, this year Indonesia dropped to fifth rank, an official says.
Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih said that the rank drop was a Millennium Development Goal achievement. She said that in 2010, the number of people with tuberculosis numbered 300,000, with deaths caused by tuberculosis reaching 61,000, or 169 people per day.
“The number is relatively high and we are trying to reduce it through the tuberculosis national program,” she said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
She said that the handling of tuberculosis cases was already put in the ministry’s 2010-2014 national strategy. The availability of medicine from hospitals to community health centers also helps push down the number of tuberculosis patients. — JP
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