TB in the Philippines

тВ World Health Organization IN THE PHILIPPINES FACTS! WHAT IS TB is the 6th leading cause of death in the Philippines. TB? Tuberculosis (TB) is an 68 Filipinos die from TB everyday infectious disease caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. 260,000 Filipinos got sick with TB in 2012. But TB is curable and preventable. Millennium Development Goal target on TB was achieved in 2011. The Philippines is still ranked the 4th among 27 high MDR-TB burden countries that accounted for 90% of the global burden of MDR-TB. Among the 22 high TB burden countries that accounted for 81% of global TB cases, the Philippines is TB is contagious and airborne. ranked the 7th. FIND & TREAT Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) does not respond to standard treatments; and is difficult and costly to treat. All forms of TB Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB 24% 56% 84% 90% case detected treatment succeeded case detected treatment succeeded HOW DOES THE PHILIPPINES RESPOND TO TB? Catch TB project Anti-TB tested various strategies to detect more TB cases. drug supply National TB Control Program Over 15,200 cases were detected, 177% of the expected results, and were successfully referred by hospitals to local health centres. focuses on early TB detection and cure through DOTS strategy. DOTS STRATEGY Standardized Early case detection Detect TB project treatment carried out in Palawan to improve accessibility to TB services among vulnerable population such as indige- nous people, poor house- holds, and prison inmates, thereby increasing case detection. New technologies such as digital X-ray, LED-FM and GeneXpert were intro- duced as well. 73 Patient Political monitoring will REACH THE 3 MILLION. Source: Global TB Report 2012, 2013, www.who.int/tb WORLD TB DAY 2014 FIND. TREAT. CURE TB.