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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2012-02/29/c_131437892.htm
Deadly drug resistant tuberculosis stalks Uganda, country renews fight
English.news.cn 2012-02-29 14:19:26
by Ronald Ssekandi /Yuan Qing
KAMPALA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- As tens of thousands of Ugandans continue to get infected with the deadly Tuberculosis (TB) disease, a top expert here is warning that the country is being gripped by a lethal mutated strain of the disease.
Francis Adatu, head of the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Program, told Xinhua in an interview on Tuesday that the deadly disease which manifests itself as a chronic cough associated with chest pain, evening fevers, night sweat and evident loss of weight remains a major public health problem in the East African country.
The 2010 Global World Health Organization Report ranks Uganda as the 16th among the 22 TB high burden countries in the world.
In 2011, the country recorded 49,009 TB cases out of which 25, 612 were infectious and 55 percent were HIV co-infected, according to ministry of health statistics.
Many HIV patients in Uganda develop TB...
...Due to challenges of delivering quality treatment regimens that help TB patients take their medication strictly as prescribed, the new mutated strain, Multidrug Resistant TB, or 'MDR' TB, has developed.
"According to our prevalence survey we found MDR TB in 1.3 percent among new cases and 12.3 percent among people who have been exposed to drugs or treated over and over again," Adatu said...
Deadly drug resistant tuberculosis stalks Uganda, country renews fight
English.news.cn 2012-02-29 14:19:26
by Ronald Ssekandi /Yuan Qing
KAMPALA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- As tens of thousands of Ugandans continue to get infected with the deadly Tuberculosis (TB) disease, a top expert here is warning that the country is being gripped by a lethal mutated strain of the disease.
Francis Adatu, head of the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Program, told Xinhua in an interview on Tuesday that the deadly disease which manifests itself as a chronic cough associated with chest pain, evening fevers, night sweat and evident loss of weight remains a major public health problem in the East African country.
The 2010 Global World Health Organization Report ranks Uganda as the 16th among the 22 TB high burden countries in the world.
In 2011, the country recorded 49,009 TB cases out of which 25, 612 were infectious and 55 percent were HIV co-infected, according to ministry of health statistics.
Many HIV patients in Uganda develop TB...
...Due to challenges of delivering quality treatment regimens that help TB patients take their medication strictly as prescribed, the new mutated strain, Multidrug Resistant TB, or 'MDR' TB, has developed.
"According to our prevalence survey we found MDR TB in 1.3 percent among new cases and 12.3 percent among people who have been exposed to drugs or treated over and over again," Adatu said...