Armenpress
GOVERNMENT APPROVES NATIONAL PLAN TO FIGHT
TUBERCULOSIS
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS: The government
of Armenia has approved today the National Plan of
Actions to Fight Tuberculosis in 2007-2015.
Vahan Poghosian, a senior official of the health
ministry, said the new program is the continuation of
a program that was fulfilled in 2003-2006.
One of the actions calls for increase in the number
of special departments at all regional clinics for
treatment of TB from 43 now to 77. The plan of actions
foresees also a set of preventive measures in
correction facilities and in the armed forces.
The focus of the 2003-2006 program was on
revelation of primary patients and their treatment.
Thus in 2000 1,284 primary patients were revealed and
2006 patients in 2005.
Mortality rate among TB patients in 2000 was 33 per
100,000 population and 63 in 2005. Doctors explain,
however, that the rise in numbers is due to a better
revelation of TV patients.
The National Plan of Actions to Fight TB will be
funded, apart from the government, also by the
government of Germany that will provide 2. 250 million
euros and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and TB that
will provide $7.5 million