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STORY: WHO / GLOBAL TB CONTROL REPORT
TRT: 1.10
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: MARCH 2009, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – WHO - 2008, KIBAHA, TANZANIA
1. Wide shot, woman entering community group hospital
2. Med shot, woman weighing
3. Pan right, care providers talking with patient and handing her medicine
FILE – WHO – 2009, MADDOX CENTER, PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
4. Wide, exterior Maddox Center where children with HIV and TB are treated
5. Med shot, patient in bed
6. Med shot, care providers
7. Close up, medicines
8. Close up, Dr. listening to patient’s heart and lungs
FILE – WHO – 2009, SVEY RING PROVINCE, CAMBODIA
9. Med shot, nurses and patient on wheel chair
10. Med shot, nurse putting patient into bed
11. Med shot, nurse handing drugs to patient
FILE – WHO – 2009, BEIJING CHEST HOSPITAL, CHINA
12. Med shot, chest X-rays
13. Med, Dr. in lab
A new report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today in Geneva said the total number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases remained stable in 2007, and the percentage of the world's population becoming ill with TB has continued the slow decline that was first observed in 2004.
However, the 2009 Global TB Control Report also reveals that one out of four TB deaths is HIV related, twice as many as previously recognized. In 2007, there were an estimated 1.37 million new cases of tuberculosis among HIV-infected people and 456,000 deaths.
This figure reflects an improvement in the quality of the country data, which are now more representative and available from more countries than in previous years.
The report reveals a sharp increase in HIV testing among people being treated for TB, especially in Africa. In 2004, just 4 percent of TB patients in the region were tested for HIV, in 2007 that number rose to 37 percent with several countries testing more than 75 percent of TB patients for their HIV status.
Because of increased testing for HIV among TB patients, more people are getting appropriate treatment though the numbers still remain a small fraction of those in need. In 2007, 200 000 HIV-positive TB patients were enrolled on co-trimoxazole treatment to prevent opportunistic infections and 100 000 were on antiretroviral therapy.
Given the current financial crisis the report documents concerns over an increasing shortage in funding.
Ninety-four countries in which ninety-three percent of the world's TB cases occur provided complete financial data for the report. To meet the 2009 milestones in the Stop TB Partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB, the funding shortfall for these 94 countries has risen to about US$ 1.5 billion. Full funding of the Global Plan will achieve its aim of halving TB prevalence and deaths compared with 1990 levels by 2015.
