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WHO well satisfied with TB cure rate
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December 10, 2009, Thursday
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AN aggressive treatment method has cured about 36 million people from tuberculosis over the past 15 years and averted up to 8 million deaths, the World Health Organization said.
Since the adoption of a WHO-based six-point strategy to curb the spread of TB, cure rates have risen regularly.
In the past 12 months, 2.3 million people were cured. About 87 percent of patients globally treated for TB are cured, exceeding for the first time a global target of an 85-percent cure rate since it was set in 1991, WHO said on Tuesday.
The strategy involves increased government financing, quality diagnosis, standardized and supervised treatment, an effective drug supply and management system and progress monitoring.
"Fifteen years of TB investments are bringing visible results in terms of human lives saved," said Dr Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB department.
Since the adoption of a WHO-based six-point strategy to curb the spread of TB, cure rates have risen regularly.
In the past 12 months, 2.3 million people were cured. About 87 percent of patients globally treated for TB are cured, exceeding for the first time a global target of an 85-percent cure rate since it was set in 1991, WHO said on Tuesday.
The strategy involves increased government financing, quality diagnosis, standardized and supervised treatment, an effective drug supply and management system and progress monitoring.
"Fifteen years of TB investments are bringing visible results in terms of human lives saved," said Dr Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB department.
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