TUBERCULOSIS IN SIBIU COUNTY BETWEEN 2009 AND 2013

摘要

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the diseases with the highest mortality in the world. In 2013, 9 million people developed tuberculosis and 1.5 million died from this disease. Of the 9 million subjects who developed the disease, 1.1 million (13%) were human immunodeficiency virus positive patients (HIV-positive). Globally, TB mortality rate has dropped by an estimated 45% between 1990 and 2013, and the prevalence of tuberculosis declined by 41% at the same time.(1) This should accelerate progress in achieving the objectives of the Stop TB Partnership to reduce the disease by 50% by 2015. According to the World Heath Organization (WHO), the end of 2015 marks a transition to a post-2015 global TB strategy (the End TB Strategy) that was approved by all Member States at the World Health Assembly on May 2014.(2) The overall goal of the strategy is to end the global TB epidemic until 2035, by a 95% reduction in TB deaths and a 90% reduction in TB incidence.