Tuberculosis and Leprosy

This program aims to increase the demand for TB care by raising community awareness through advocacy, communication, social mobilization and integration into the Health Extension Program.

The three TB prevention and control indicators are TB case detection rate, TB treatment success rate, and TB cure rate. Overall, this program is maintaining high levels of treatment success and cure rate. Once put on TB treatment, adherence of patients to the treatment is satisfactory.

There is a decline in TB treatment success rate and TB cure rate from 85% and 69% in EFY 1999 to 84% and 67% in EFY 2000 respectively. The TB case detection rate increased from 32 % in EFY 1999 to 34% in EFY 2000.