Control of tuberculosis in Ghana (Ghana National Tuberculosis Programme)
1998
Addo, K.K. | Kapitancik, B. (University of Veterinary Medicine, Kosice (Slovak Republic))
Tuberculosis, which is increasingly recognized as a major public health problem all over the world, is an especially important problem in developing countries such as Ghana. The national incidence of the disease in 1990 was 0.43 per 1000 (in a national population of 15 millions); 6,407 cases were officially reported in 1990 and 10,449 cases in 1996. In the human population of Ghana, the national incidence of TB was therefore 0.70 per 1000 in 1996. This increase is attributed to factors such as overcrowding, malnutrition, drug abuse, HIV infection, and the lack of proper hygiene and absence of environmental cleanliness, as well as the on-going Ghana National Tuberculosis Programme (financed by the governments of Ghana and Denmark) which has led to more samples being examined microscopically. The emphasis of TB control in Ghana is on the diagnosis and treatment of smear-positive pulmonary patients. There is an on-going nation-wide tuberculinization of cattle, which will give the correct picture of the disease in the cattle population
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