NUMBER OF INITIAL CASES OF DISEASE WITH TUBERCULOSIS DECREASES 19% IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Mar 22 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 22, NOYAN TAPAN. March 24 is the international
day of struggle against tuberculosis. This year slogan of it is
"Tuberculosis Anywhere Means Everywhere." About 2 mln people die and
about 9 mln people are infected with tuberculosis in the world every
year. As Tatev Kostanian, the deputy head of the "National Program on
Struggle against Tuberculosis" informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent,
5673 patients (6455 in 2006) with tuberculosis are registered in
Armenia. 91 from them are below 14 years old children. In her words,
the number of newly found out patients decreased 19% in 2006, as if
compared with the previous year. This number made 1613. T. Kostanian
also stated that the number of cases of death from that desease also
decreased. So, 167 cases of death were registered in 2005, 153 cases
were registered in 2006.