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STORY: ASIA / TUBERCULOSIS
TRT: 1:23
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE - THE PHILLIPINES
1. Various shots, child suffering from TB being rushed into TB Isolation Unit
2. Close-up, sick man on a ventilator
3. Med shot, sick child taking TB medication
4. Med shot, sick child getting vaccination
FILE – 2009, MADDOX CENTER, PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
5. Wide, exterior Maddox Center where children with HIV and TB are treated
6. Med shot, patient in bed
7. Med shot, care providers
8. Close-up, medicines
9. Close-up, doctor listening to patient’s heart and lungs
FILE – 2009, SVEY RING PROVINCE, CAMBODIA
10. Med shot, nurses and patient on wheel chair
11. Med shot, nurse putting patient into bed
12. Med shot, nurse handing drugs to patient
FILE – 2009, BEIJING CHEST HOSPITAL, CHINA
13. Med shot, chest X-rays
14. Med, Dr. in lab
FILE - LATVIA
15. Various shots, hospital wards with TB patients
FILE - DATE AND LOCATION UNKNOWN
16. Various shots, medical labs
A latest World Health Organization (WHO) report said that drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is now at record levels with Asia bearing the brunt of the epidemic.
The report, entitled WHO’s Multidrug and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: 2010 Global Report on Surveillance and Response, was released in Geneva today (19 March) and called for better diagnosis of the disease.
The reports stated that in some parts of the world, one in four people with TB becomes ill with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs.
Nearly one-third of the 440,000 people with multi-drug-resistant form of the disease (MDR-TB) in 2008 died.
Almost half of the MDR-TB cases occurred in China, where the first nationwide drug resistance survey was conducted, and India. In Africa, estimates show 69,000 cases emerged, the vast majority of which went undiagnosed.
The report also shows a gap in efforts to control TB in Eastern Europe. In one region in north-western Russia, some 28 per cent of all people newly diagnosed with TB in 2008 had the multi-drug-resistant form.
Neighbouring countries such Estonia and Latvia also reversed rates of the disease, while Hong Kong and the United States were praised for achieving sustained successes in controlling MDR-TB.
The reported noted that even in the presence of severe epidemics, governments and partners can turn around MDR-TB by strengthening efforts to control the disease and implementing WHO recommendations.
In most other countries, progress remains slow with 60 per cent of cases reported as cured.
To intensify efforts, the report called for urgent improvements in laboratory facilities, and treatment with more effective drugs and shorter regimens than the current two years.
The report was released ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, which is marked annually on 24 March.
