Currently, Vietnam ranks 13th out of 22 countries with the highest number of TB patients in the world, he
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Mr. Dinh Ngoc Sy, Director of the Central Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital, said at the conference to summarize the 20-year national TB program, on July 27.
In the period 2001-2005, Vietnam has discovered nearly 500,000 patients with tuberculosis infection. The highest area is the Mekong Delta with the rate of 100 / 100,000 people suffering from tuberculosis AFB (+) and tuberculosis of 150 / 100,000 people.
However, according to Mr. Sy, the work of tuberculosis prevention is currently facing the increasing number of patients with TB / HIV co-infection, drug-resistant TB .
In the period of 2006-2010, the anti-tuberculosis program will develop drug diagnosis and supply centers for patients with multi-drug resistant TB; increase accessibility for ethnic minority and poor people . to achieve the target of detection of tuberculosis in the community of 85%, treat 90.6%, reduce 50% of infected people and 50 % of patients died in 2015.
