TB rates for healthcare workers
The ratio of the TB notification rate among healthcare workers to the TB notification rate in the general adult population is a good indicator of the impact of TB infection prevention and control in health facilities and should be around one. In 2018, a total of 22,819 healthcare workers from 74 countries were reported with TB; India accounted for 56% of these cases and China for 16%. In eight countries (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, India, Lesotho and the United Republic of Tanzania), the number of TB cases per 100,000 healthcare workers was more than double the notification rate in the general adult population.
Writing is on the wall: #StepUpTheFight
Lot more action is required to ensure not just speed but velocity picks up rapidly to bring the world on track to end TB. Let's set our eyes on key targets as we push the pedal towards them: The WHO End TB Strategy milestones and four global targets set in the political declaration at the UNHLM on TB are:
- TB incidence: 20% reduction by 2020 compared with 2015
- TB deaths: 35% reduction by 2020 compared with 2015
- TB patients not facing catastrophic costs (100% of TB patients by 2020)
- TB treatment to 40 million people, 2018-2022 (7 million in 2018 and 8 million every year thereon)
- TB Preventive Treatment (TPT): at least 30 million people to get TPT 2018-2022
- Funding for TB prevention and care: US$ 13 billion, annually by 2022
- Funding for TB research: US$ 2 billion annually 2018-2022
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