Only 78% of the persons who suffer from drug-sensitive tuberculosis are completely traded, while the cases of multidrug-resistant TB are only 66% treated. According to the National Public Health Center, even if the epidemiological situation has stabilized in Moldova during the past few years, tuberculosis morbidity in 2017 remained high – 3 358 cases, as opposed to 3 576 in 2016. As many as 321 people suffering from TB died in Moldova last year, IPN reports.
The new report published by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization shows that the number of new cases of TB during the past ten years in the European Region of the WHO has decreased by about 4.3% a year. Even if this is the fastest decline in the world, the tendency is insufficient for stopping the TB epidemic by 2030, which was laid out as an objective in the Stop TB Strategy and in the Sustainable Development Goals. The new report was launched before the World TB Day that this year urges acceleration of efforts to end the global TB epidemic.
In 2018, it is ten years of the adoption of the Berlin Declaration “All Against Tuberculosis”. In September, there will be held the first in the history UN General Assembly high-level meeting on ending TB. At global level, a much more firm commitment is needed to accelerate the process of eliminating TB. This envisions the use of modern technologies for swift diagnosis, provision of assistance in working out new instruments and in formulating and implementing regulations to extend the access to new medicines.
World TB Day is annually marked on March 24. The major goal is to raise people’s awareness of the burden of TB worldwide and the situation concerning measures to prevent and control tuberculosis.
