[EQ] Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in The World

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS DRUG RESISTANCE IN THE WORLD

Fourth Global Report

World Health Organization – February 2008 -  WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis

Drug Resistance Surveillance -  WHO/HTM/TB/

 

Available online as PDF file [142p.] at: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2008/drs_report4_26feb08.pdf

 

This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. The three previous reports were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and included data from 35, 58 and 77 countries, respectively. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results from 91,577 patients from 93 settings in 81 countries and 2 Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of China collected between 2002 and 2006, and representing over 35% of the global total of notified new smear-positive TB cases. It includes data from 33 countries that have never previously reported.

 

New data are available from the following high TB burden countries1: India, China, Russian Federation, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Philippines, Viet Nam, Tanzania, Thailand, and Myanmar. Between 1994 and 2007 a total of 138 settings in 114 countries and 2 SARs of China had reported data to the Global Project.

 

CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2: Methods

Chapter 3: Results

Data reported to WHO between 2002 and 2007

New Cases

Previously treated cases

Non MDR rifampicin resistance

MDR-TB by WHO region

Age and Sex

Drug resistance and HIV

XDR-TB

Data reported to WHO from 1994 to 2007

Regional population weighted medians

Distribution of resistance within regions

Correlation of survey and routine surveillance data

Trends

Estimates

The Supranational Laboratory Network

Chapter 4: Discussion

Overview

Survey Methods

Magnitude and trends

XDR-TB

Drug resistance and HIV

Global estimates

The Supranational Reference Laboratory Network

WHO regions
Annex

 

 

 

 

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