Vietnam among world?s top countries with tuberculosis

[Shiloh]

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Vietnam among world?s top countries with tuberculosis
Tuoitrenews
Updated : 11/02/2013 13:42 GMT + 7

With about 100,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) reported every year, Vietnam ranks 12 out of the 22 highest TB-burden countries identified by the World Health Organization, said Dr Tang Chi Thuong, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department.

Dr Thuonng released the figures at the conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday to sum up the Public Private Mix (PPM) Project for TB and HIV Control in Vietnam.

TB is the second cause of death in people with infectious diseases in Vietnam, where more than 100,000 new TB patients and 17,000 deaths of TB recorded every year, Dr Thuong said.

Of these new TB cases, HCMC accounts for 13-15 percent...

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Vietnam among world?s top countries with tuberculosis

Saturday, Mar 22, 2014, Posted at: 14:24(GMT+7)

Tuberculosis deaths drastically increases
A meeting in Hanoi on March 21 to implement the National Anti-Tuberculosis campaign for 2020 to 2030 revealed that the rate of deaths from tuberculosis has drastically increased.
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Vietnam ranks 12 out of 22 nations in the world for high rates of the disease. The country experiences 130,000 new patients every year. Over 3,500 of the patients experience a drug-resistant strain and 18,000 people die annually.
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