Global Tuberculosis Control 2010 - Florida Department of Health

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ment success rate of 85% among sputum smear-positive
cases of pulmonary TB by 2000 were set by the Fortyfourth
World Health Assembly in 1991, with the target
year subsequently reset to 2005.
Given uncertainty in estimates of TB incidence, this
report places less emphasis on the CDR, compared with
past reports (and this will be true of future reports on
global TB control as well). In particular, this report (for
the first time in the series of reports published since
1997) does not include estimates of the CDR for sputum
smear-positive cases of pulmonary TB ().
The best estimate of the CDR of all forms of TB in 2009
was 63% (range, 60–67%) (). The highest rates of
case detection in 2009 are estimated to be in the Euro-
pean Region (best estimate 80%; range, 74–85%) and
the Region of the Americas (best estimate 79%; range,
74–85%), followed by the Western Pacific Region (best
estimate 70%; range, 64–78%). The African Region has
the lowest estimated rate of case detection (best estimate
50%; range, 48–53%). Among the HBCs, the highest
rates of case detection in 2009 are estimated to be in
Brazil, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Kenya, the
United Republic of Tanzania and China; the lowest rate
is in Nigeria.
While estimated rates of TB incidence are falling
slowly, notification rates are increasing in the African
Region and (particularly since around the year 2000)
the Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia regions,