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lundi 24 mars 2014

TB win for China

IN 20 years, China has more than halved its number of tuberculosis cases – with rates falling from 170 cases per 100,000 people in 1990 to 59 in 2010. The success has been driven by a community-based programme that shifted treatment away from hospitals and into public health centres, according to an analysis by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing (The Lancet, DOI: 10.1016/S01406736(13)62639-2). During the 1990s, TB cases  fell only in Chinese provinces  that implemented the initiative. By 2010, the programme had expanded to all provinces, and TB rates fell across the country. Globally, about 1.3 million people die from TB each year. The study’s authors say that community programmes are essential but better diagnostic tools and treatments are still needed.

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