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World Health Organization:
Drug–resistant tuberculosis is on the rise, says report
The highest ever rates of multi–drug resistant tuberculosis [TB] have been reported in the most comprehensive survey to date on the scale of the problem. The report, Anti–tuberculosis drug resistance in the world, is based on data collected between 2002 and 2006 on 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries.
The World Health Organization [WHO] estimates there are nearly half a million new cases of multi–drug resistant TB a year, which is about five per cent of nine million new TB cases of all types. The highest rate was recorded in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where nearly a quarter of all new cases were multi–drug resistant. There are also increased rates of drug–resistant TB in the Russian Federation and surveys from China suggest it is widespread there.
Extensively, drug–resistant TB, a virtually untreatable form of the respiratory disease, has been recorded in 45 countries.
A link between HIV infection and multi–drug resistant TB was also identified; surveys in Latvia and Ukraine found nearly twice the level of this resistance among patients with HIV compared with patients without HIV. The WHO admits the true scale of drug–resistant TB remains unknown and says only six countries in Africa, which has the highest incidence of TB in the world, could provide drug resistance data.
For further information visit the WHO website at: www.who.int.
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