WHO engages 12,000 community informants to find ‘missing TB cases’ in Nigeria vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The 2018 TB report reveals that 4.3 million cases are missed globally and Nigeria contributes 8 percent of this.The 2018 WHO Global TB Report indicates that the disease burden caused by TB is falling globally, but not fast enough to reach the required milestones of the ‘End TB Strategy -2020’.
The ‘missing cases’ constitute pool of reservoir for the continuous transmission of the disease as each undetected TB case has the potential of infecting 10-15 persons in a year. In March 2018, with funding from the United States Agency for International Aid , WHO engaged the services of 12 TB state surveillance officers to enhance TB case notifications in high burden states of Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Anambra, Niger, Imo, Bauchi, Oyo, Delta, Benue and Taraba.
With this recruitment, 190 additional health facilities are now reporting on TB and 523 additional TB cases have been reported to National TB Programme.
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