03 June 2003 02:49
TB death rate in Russia is still high
MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - According to statistics cited by Academy of Medical Sciences President Valentin Pokrovsky
at the 7th Congress of Tuberculosis Specialists in Moscow on Tuesday, the death toll from tuberculosis in Russia is
20-21 per 100,000 people.
On the whole, open TB incidence has doubled since 1991; in 2002
alone, more than 100,000 people were registered as tuberculosis
"The pace of TB mortality is still very high" in Russia, Pokrovsky said. He added that this indicator has
doubled in the country since 1991.
"However, over the last three years, there has been some decline
in the spread of tuberculosis in Russia," stressed Pokrovsky. He
reported that while in 2000, the TB incidence was 90.7 cases per
Pokrovsky noted that a serious cause for anxiety is the spread of
the disease among children. The number of children infected with
patients.
100,000, in 2002, this figure dropped to 86.1 cases per 100,000.
"In 2003, there has also been some decline in TB growth rate," he said.
tuberculosis has more than doubled since 1991.
He also pointed out that 30-50% of all TB-infected people in Russia come from the low-income stratum of society.
A new problem for medical workers in the anti-tuberculosis campaign, Pokrovsky reported, "has been two horrible
and overlapping social ills - tuberculosis and AIDS."
"The percentage of HIV-positive and AIDS patients dying from tuberculosis is still high," added Pokrovsky.
[RU ASIA EUROPE EMRG HEA] az tl <>
[CEIW] |
RUSSIA IN FACTS
