Tuberculosis and other lung/respiratory tract diseases
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | GANFYD tuberculosis page |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | GANFYD |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 March 2008 |
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| Title: | | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Myanmar Progress, Plans and Challenges |
| Description/subject: | | "The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates
that 9,000 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
cases occur in Myanmar each year. Extensively
drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) has been reported since
2007.
In 2011, only 2% of MDR-TB cases received adequate
diagnosis, treatment and care. Undiagnosed or
mismanaged MDR-TB cases lead to further spread of
the disease.
he Ministry of Health is committed to ighting
MDR-TB. In 2009 the National TB Programme (NTP)
and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an
MDR-TB pilot project in 10 townships in Yangon and
Mandalay.
Following excellent initial results, the NTP is taking
MDR-TB management to scale. The 2011-2015
MDR-TB expansion plan will enable treatment of
nearly 10,000 MDR-TB cases in 100 townships. he total cost of scaling up MDR-TB managemen is US$ 55 million, out of which US$ 41 million is yet to be raised. While the top priority
remains preventing MDR-TB by sustaining and improving basic TB control, the Ministry of Health is working with technical and inancial
partners towards the goal of universal access to MDR-TB diagnosis, treatment and care..." |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organisation (WHO) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 November 2012 |
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| Title: | | Prevention and control of Communicable Diseases Tuberculosis (including TB-HIV) |
| Description/subject: | | Providing technical assistance to the National TB Programme (NTP), particularly on:
* developing TB control policies and strategies;
* building capacity to sustain, improve and further intensify Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) implementation;
* scaling up and strengthening inter-sectoral partnerships for DOTS;
* improving community awareness and utilization of DOTS;
* addressing HIV related TB and anti-TB drug resistance under programme conditions;
* measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goals;
* designing and disseminating information, education and communication messages;
* improving operational research to strengthen DOTS implementation, together with the Department of Medical Research.
* Facilitating partnership, including with the Global TB Drug Facility.
* Providing technical expertise to the joint programme implementation through Technical Working Group on TB.
* Disseminating scientific information.
* Organizing external two-yearly review of the NTP.
* Advocacy and raising commitment for TB control.
* Resource mobilization for TB and TB-HIV.
* In-country presence of WHO Advisor for TB and TB-HIV. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | WHO Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 September 2011 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Myanmar cures 130,000 TB patients in 2009 |
| Date of publication: | | 25 May 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | YANGON, March 25 — Myanmar is seeking new drugs, diagnosis and vaccine to fight tuberculosis (TB), the deadly disease that is on the rise again.
The measures also covers promoting the anti-TB campaign with the cooperation of partners, fighting TB through primary healthcare and disseminating public health knowledge, official daily the New Light of Myanmar said Thursday.
The paper quoted an annual report of the health ministry as saying that Myanmar was able to find and cure over 130,000 TB patients in 2009, meeting the millennium goal of the United Nations as discovery rate reached 94 percent and treatment success rate hit 85 percent. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Balita.ph |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://balita.ph/2010/05/10/myanmar-upgrades-labs-in-anti-tb-efforts/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Three major diseases in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | June 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | JAPAN International Cooperation is leading the fight against three major diseases in Myanmar. The Myanmar Times’ Khin Myat met with JICA project leader and tuberculosis specialist, Mr Kosuke Okada, and malaria expert Mr Masatoshi Nakamura to ask about their activities.
1. How much money is JICA spending annually to control these diseases?
Our project period is from January 2005 to January 2010. We have been spending around ¥150 million per year on long- and short-term experts, international and domestic training, provision of equipment such as vehicles, lab equipment, microscopes, mosquito nets, lab test kits, local training and consumables. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Times (Volume 22, No. 425) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Displacement and disease: the Shan exodus and infectious disease implications for Thailand |
| Date of publication: | | 14 March 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract:
"Decades of neglect and abuses by the Burmese government have decimated the health of the
peoples of Burma, particularly along her eastern frontiers, overwhelmingly populated by
ethnic minorities such as the Shan. Vast areas of traditional Shan homelands have been
systematically depopulated by the Burmese military regime as part of its counter-insurgency
policy, which also employs widespread abuses of civilians by Burmese soldiers, including
rape, torture, and extrajudicial executions. These abuses, coupled with Burmese government
economic mismanagement which has further entrenched already pervasive poverty in rural
Burma, have spawned a humanitarian catastrophe, forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic
Shan villagers to flee their homes for Thailand. In Thailand, they are denied refugee status
and its legal protections, living at constant risk for arrest and deportation. Classified as
“economic migrants,” many are forced to work in exploitative conditions, including in the
Thai sex industry, and Shan migrants often lack access to basic health services in Thailand.
Available health data on Shan migrants in Thailand already indicates that this population
bears a disproportionately high burden of infectious diseases, particularly HIV, tuberculosis,
lymphatic filariasis, and some vaccine-preventable illnesses, undermining progress made by
Thailand’s public health system in controlling such entities. The ongoing failure to address
the root political causes of migration and poor health in eastern Burma, coupled with the
many barriers to accessing health programs in Thailand by undocumented migrants,
particularly the Shan, virtually guarantees Thailand’s inability to sustainably control many
infectious disease entities, especially along her borders with Burma." |
| Author/creator: | | Voravit Suwanvanichkij |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Conflict and Health 2008, 2:4 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (170K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/2/1/4 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 09 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma |
| Date of publication: | | July 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "Decades of repressive military rule, civil war, corruption, bad governance, isolation, and
widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have rendered
Burma’s health care system incapable of responding effectively to endemic and emerging
infectious diseases. Burma’s major infectious diseases—malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis
(TB)—are severe health problems in many areas of the country. Malaria is the most common
cause of morbidity and mortality due to infectious disease in Burma. Eighty-nine percent of the
estimated population of 52 million lived in malarial risk areas in 1994, with about 80 percent of
reported infections due to Plasmodium falciparum, the most dangerous form of the disease.
Burma has one of the highest TB rates in the world, with nearly 97,000 new cases detected each
year.4 Drug resistance to both TB and malaria is rising, as is the broad availability of counterfeit
antimalarial drugs. In June 2007, a TB clinic operated by Médecins Sans Frontières–France in
the Thai border town of Mae Sot reported it had confirmed two cases of extensively drugresistant
TB in Burmese migrants who had previously received treatment in Burma. Meanwhile,
HIV/AIDS, once contained to high-risk groups in Burma, has spread to the general population,
which is defined as a prevalence of 1 percent among reproductive-age adults.5
Meanwhile, the Burmese government spends less than 3 percent of national expenditures on
health, while the military, with a standing army of over 400,000 troops, consumes 40 percent.6
By comparison, many of Burma’s neighbors spend considerably more on health: Thailand
(6.1%7), China (5.6 %8), India (6.1%9), Laos (3.2%10), Bangladesh (3.4%11), and Cambodia
(12%12).....The report recommends that:
• The Burmese government develop a national health care system in which care is
distributed effectively, equitably, and transparently.
• The Burmese government increase its spending on health and education to confront
the country’s long-standing health problems, especially the rise of drug-resistant
malaria and tuberculosis.
• The Burmese government rescind guidelines issued last year by the country’s
Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development because these guidelines
have restricted such organizations as the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) from providing relief in Burma.
• The Burmese government allow ICRC to resume visits to prisoners without the
requirement that ICRC doctors be accompanied by members of the Union Solidarity
and Development Association or other organizations.
• The Burmese government take immediate steps to halt the internal conflict and
violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in eastern Burma that
are creating an unprecedented number of internally displaced persons and facilitating
the spread of infectious diseases in the region.
• Foreign aid organizations and donors monitor and evaluate how aid to combat
infectious diseases in Burma is affecting domestic expenditures on health and
education.
• Relevant national and local government agencies, United Nations agencies, NGOs
establish a regional narcotics working group which would assess drug trends in the
region and monitor the impact of poppy eradication programs on farming
communities.
• UN agencies, national and local governments, and international and local NGOs
cooperate closely to facilitate greater information-sharing and collaboration among
agencies and organizations working to lessen the burden of infectious diseases in
Burma and its border regions. These institutions must develop a regional response
to the growing problem of counterfeit antimalarial drugs." |
| Author/creator: | | Eric Stover, Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Andrew Moss, David Tuller, Thomas J. Lee, Emily Whichard, Rachel Shigekane, Chris Beyrer, David Scott Mathieson |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley; Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| Format/size: | | pdf (5.1MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.jhsph.edu/humanrights/images/GatheringStorm_BurmaReport_2007.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 29 June 2007 |
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| Title: | | Social franchising of TB care through private GPs in Myanmar: an assessment of treatment results, access, equity and financial protection |
| Date of publication: | | 12 April 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | This article assesses whether social franchising of tuberculosis (TB) services in Myanmar has succeeded in providing quality treatment while ensuring equity in access and financial protection for poor patients. Newly diagnosed TB patients receiving treatment from private general practitioners (GPs) belonging to the franchise were identified. They were interviewed about social conditions, health seeking and health care costs at the time of starting treatment and again after 6 months follow-up. Routine data were used to ascertain clinical outcomes as well as to monitor trends in case notification. |
| Author/creator: | | # Knut Lönnroth, Tin Aung, Win Maung, Hans Kluge and Mukund Uplekar |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine via Health Policy and Planning |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/156.full.pdf+html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | STUDY OF DRUG RESISTANT CASES AMONG NEW PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS ATTENDING A TUBERCULOSIS CENTER, YANGON, MYANMAR |
| Date of publication: | | January 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at a tuberculosis center, Yangon,
Myanmar from October 2003 to July 2004 to analyze the drug susceptibility of new sputum
smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. A total of 202 Mycobacterium tuberculosis
isolates were tested for resistance to isoniazid, streptomycin, rifampicin and ethambutol. Resistance
to at least one anti-tuberculosis drug was documented in 32 (15.8%) isolates. Monoresistance
(resistance to one drug) was noted in 15 (7.4%) isolates and poly-resistance (resistance
to two or more drugs) was noted in 17 (9.4%) isolates, including 8 (4.0%) multi-drug
resistant isolates (resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin). Total resistance to individual
anti-tuberculosis drugs were: isoniazid (29, 14.3%), streptomycin (11, 5.4%), rifampicin (10,
4.9%) and ethambutol (1, 0.5%). The demographic data and possible contributing factors of
drug resistance were evaluated among the drug resistant patients. Poly-resistant cases had
significantly longer intervals between symptom appearance and achieving effective anti-tuberculosis
treatment than mono-resistant cases (p = 0.015)." |
| Author/creator: | | Wah Wah Aung, Ti Ti, Kyu Kyu Than, Myat Thida, Mar Mar Nyein, Yin Yin Htun, Win Maung,Aye Htun |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | SOUTHEAST ASIAN J TROP MED PUBLIC HEALTH Vol 38 No. 1 January 2007 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (46K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 January 2010 |
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| Title: | | Report on Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) and Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2007 in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary:
Myanmar as a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control had
adopted the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law in 2006
which came into effect in May, 2007. Ministry of Health has been implementing
tobacco control activities in collaboration with related ministries; school-based
tobacco control activities are being conducted in coordination with the Ministry of
Education. Myanmar conducted Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS) in 2001,
2004 and 2007 and the Global School Personnel Surveys (GSPS) in 2004 and 2007.
The GYTS is a school-based survey of students aged 13-15 years. The GSPS is also a
school-based survey of all school personnel from the schools that the GYTS was
conducted. The GYTS and GSPS were conducted as a nation-wide survey in
Myanmar.
Between 2001 and 2007, a significant reduction in the proportion of students currently
smoked cigarettes is observed (a fall from overall prevalence among 13-15 year olds
of 10.2% to 4.9%) but reported use of other tobacco products had increased during the
period from 5.7% to 14.1%. Over the period, exposure to SHS at home and in public
places did not change and stayed significantly high. There is very high demand from
these children to ban smoking in public places (almost 90% of the children expressed
this desire in both years). The ability to purchase cigarettes in a store had reduced
significantly from 72.9% to 23.7%; percent who have been offered “free “cigarettes
by a tobacco company had also reduced significantly from 17.1% to 8.7%. There is no
change in percent of students receiving education on dangers of tobacco.
There was relatively high prevalence of tobacco use among male school personnel
( 17% daily chewers, 22% occasional chewers ) ( 7.4% daily cigarette smokers, 29%
occasional cigarette smoker)( 15% daily cheroot smokers and 18.4% occasional
cheroot smokers). Schools had policy prohibiting tobacco use among students as well
as students inside school buildings and on school premises, but enforcement was
weak, especially for school personnel. Only one third of the school personnel had
received training on prevention of tobacco use among youth. |
| Author/creator: | | Dr. Nyo Nyo Kyaing |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organization _SEARO /New Delhi |
| Format/size: | | pdf (125.50 K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section1174/Section2469/Section2480_14190.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | "Health Messenger" Magazine No. 33 -- special issue on Communicable Disease Control |
| Date of publication: | | September 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Introduction:
Overview of Communicable Diseases;
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases;
Principles of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases...
Disease Control Tools:
Basic Concepts of Health Measurement/Disease Frequency in Epidemiology...
Different Approaches:
4Role in Prevention, One Example of Immunization: Measles;
Outline of Surveillance and Response Plans: Bird flu in Thailand;
How to Break the Chain of Transmission: Tuberculosis;
Steps in Outbreak Management: Meningitis;
Dealing with Drug Resistance: Malaria;
Fighting Against Vectors: An Example of Mosquito Control...
From the Field:
100 HIV/AIDS Control: A Comprehensive Approach;
Highly Active Anti Retro Viral Therapy (HAART): Adherence and Influencing
Factors;
Community Education on Birdflu: A Method of Participatory Learning and Action. |
| Language: | | Burmese, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (6MB - low res; 50MB - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.sylvainsilleran.com/index_ngo4.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 July 2007 |
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| Title: | | "Health Messenger" Magazine No. 31 -- special issue on Acute Respiratory Infections |
| Date of publication: | | March 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | GENERAL HEALTH:
Structures and functions of respiratory tract;
Bird flu at a glance�
DIAGNOSIS:
Clinical approach to children with cough and/or difficulty breathing
Clinical features of acute upper respiratory tract infections;
Acute community acquired pneumonia in previously healthy lungs�
MANAGEMENT:
Treatment of acute community acquired pneumonia in
previously healthy lungs;
How to deal with an acute asthma patient?
Coping with common cold and flu�
FROM THE FIELD:
Pneumonia case study;
Recurrent respiratory infections in children�
PREVENTION:
Prophylaxis of Pneumocystic carinii pneumonia in HIV-AIDS;
Glossary... Obese file in course of treatment |
| Language: | | Burmese, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (36.1MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 July 2007 |
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| Title: | | Responding to AIDS, TB, Malaria and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of Policy and Practice |
| Date of publication: | | March 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | "...This report seeks to synthesize what is known about HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and other
disease threats including Avian influenza (H5N1 virus) in Burma; assess the regional health and
security concerns associated with these epidemics; and to suggest policy options for responding
to these threats in the context of tightening restrictions imposed by the junta..." ...I. Introduction [p. 9-13]
II. SPDC Health Expenditures and Policies [p.14-18]
III. Public Health Status [p.19-42]
a. HIV/AIDS
b. TB
c. Malaria
d. Other health threats: Avian Flu, Filaria, Cholera
IV. SPDC Policies Towards the Three "Priority Diseases" [p. 43-45]
and Humanitarian Assistance
V. Health Threats and Regional Security Issues [p. 46-51]
a. HIV
b. TB
c. Malaria
VI. Policy and Program Options [p. 52-56]
VII. References [p. 57-68]
Appendix A: Official translation of guidelines
Appendix B: Statement by Bureau of Public Affairs
Appendix C: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Avian Flu notification. |
| Author/creator: | | Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH; Luke Mullany, PhD; Adam Richards, MD, MPH; Aaron Samuals, MHS; Voravit Suwanvanichkij, MD, MPH; om Lee, MD, MHS; Nicole Franck, MHS |
| Language: | | English, Burmese, Chinese |
| Source/publisher: | | Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.6MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/respondingburmese-ES-bu.pdf (Executive Summary, Burmese, 83K)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/respondingburmese-ES-ch.pdf (Executive Summary, Chinese, 144K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | THE GLOBAL FUND TERMINATES GRANTS TO MYANMAR |
| Date of publication: | | 19 August 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | New Government Restrictions Make Grant Implementation Impossible
Geneva - Given new restrictions recently imposed by the government of Myanmar, the Global Fund has concluded that its grants to the country cannot be managed in a way that ensures effective program implementation. As a result the Global Fund yesterday terminated its grant agreements to Myanmar.
The decision means that three grants, one each for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with a total value of US$ 35.7 million over two years, will be phased out by the end of the year. The decision has been taken after consultations with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is the Principal Recipient of Global Fund grants in Myanmar. The Principal Recipient is responsible for grant implementation in the country. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.theglobalfund.org/content/pressreleases/pr_050819_factsheet.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | A Global Youth Tobacco Study among 8th, 9th and 10th Grade Students in Myanmar, 2004 |
| Date of publication: | | 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | OBJECTIVES: This report aims to describe the prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as
information on five determinants of tobacco use of 8th, 9th and 10th students in Myanmar: access/
availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and
advertising, and school curriculum. These determinants are components of the comprehensive
tobacco control programme of Myanmar. The report also describes the knowledge, attitudes and
behaviour regarding to tobacco use, the extent to which they receive anti-tobacco information in
schools and from media and the extent they were exposed to pro-tobacco messages.....
METHODS: A multi-stage, school-based, two –cluster survey ( n= 6,100, 8th, 9th and 10th graders)
was conducted in 100 basic education middle and high schools of Myanmar, using a pre-tested,
modified questionnaire based on the Global Youth Tobacco Survey questionnaire developed by
Office on Smoking and Health of Center for Communicable Disease Control, Atlanta.....
INTRODUCTION:
Tobacco use is the biggest public health tragedy since it is estimated to kill approximately half of its
long-term users, and of these, half will die during productive middle age, losing 20 to 25 years of
life. Peto and Lopez estimated that about 100 million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th
century and that for the 21st century; the cumulative number could be 1 billion of current smokers.1
The increased use of tobacco is one of the greatest public health threats for the 21st century and the
tobacco epidemic is being spread and reinforced through complex mix of factors that transcend
national borders. For the international public health community tobacco is clearly a global threat.
Globalization of the tobacco epide mic restricts the capacity of countries to regulate tobacco through
domestic legislation alone. In response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, the 191 member
States of World Health Organization unanimously adopted the WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control at the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003, as a global complement to
national actions.
Myanmar, along with other Member Countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region is one of the
Parties to the Convention. Surveillance of tobacco use is one of the components of the WHOFCTC;
more than a surveillance tool on prevalence of tobacco use, the GYTS covers many important
determinants of tobacco use which has been addressed in the FCTC such as advertising, cessation,
education at schools, promoting of community awareness through anti-tobacco campaigns, access of
tobacco products by minors and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | World Health Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (52.15 K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section1174/Section2469/Section2480_14190.htm |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | "Health Messenger" Issue 7 -- Special Issue on Tuberculosis |
| Date of publication: | | December 1999 |
| Description/subject: | | Obese file undergoing treatment |
| Language: | | English, Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (15.6MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 January 2005 |
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| Title: | | Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing -- Myanmar |
| Description/subject: | | "Each year since 1999 the NTP of Myanmar has detected more TB cases, with improving treatment success rates since 2003. High
notification rates, coupled with preliminary results of a disease prevalence survey in Yangon, suggest that the burden of TB is probably
higher than currently estimated. Slightly less than half of the 2006 TB control budget was funded, and funding gaps for 2007 and 2008
are larger still. The absence of a secure supply of first-line drugs poses a serious threat to the work of the NTP, the possible consequences
of which include increasing drug resistance and loss of public confidence in TB control services." |
| Source/publisher: | | WHO REPORT 2008 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/2008/en/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 February 2009 |
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| Title: | | Tuberculosis -- Myanmar country profile 2007 and 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | "Despite limited resources, the NTP continues to improve the quality of and access to TB services, and is close to reaching the global target
for treatment success. Although Myanmar maintains a high rate of case detection, analysis from a recent TB prevalence survey in Yangon is
likely to show an underestimate of the TB burden. The arrival of the new Three Diseases Fund will allow the NTP to continue basic programme
needs while scaling up collaborative TB/HIV activities and initiatives to engage all care providers and involve the community..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | WHO |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/TB/PDF_Files/mmr.pdf (2009 report) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 November 2010 |
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