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:: FIG. 4.19<br />

Estimated MDR/RR-TB treatment coverage for MDR/RR-TB (patients started on treatment for MDR-TB<br />

as a percentage of the estimated number of MDR/RR-TB cases among notified pulmonary TB cases) in 2015,<br />

30 high MDR−TB burden countries, WHO regions and globally<br />

Kazakhstan<br />

South Africa<br />

Belarus<br />

Peru<br />

Ukraine<br />

Russian Federation<br />

Azerbaijan<br />

Republic of Moldova<br />

Tajikistan<br />

Kyrgyzstan<br />

Viet Nam<br />

Zimbabwe<br />

Uzbekistan<br />

India<br />

Philippines<br />

Kenya<br />

Myanmar<br />

Mozambique<br />

Thailand<br />

Papua New Guinea<br />

Pakistan<br />

Ethiopia<br />

Bangladesh<br />

Indonesia<br />

Nigeria<br />

DR Congo<br />

China<br />

Angola<br />

Somalia<br />

DPR Korea<br />

Europe<br />

The Americas<br />

Africa<br />

South-East Asia<br />

Eastern Mediterranean<br />

Western Pacific<br />

Global<br />

0 50 100 150<br />

Treatment coverage (%)<br />

African Region (Fig. 4.19). In 2015, enrolments outstripped<br />

notifications of MDR/RR-TB in eight high MDR-TB burden<br />

countries (Fig. 4.12). This may be caused by empirical<br />

treatment of TB patients considered at risk of having MDR/<br />

RR-TB but for whom a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis was<br />

missing, incomplete reporting of laboratory data, or enrolment<br />

of “waiting lists” of people with MDR/RR-TB who<br />

were detected before 2015.<br />

The ratio of enrolled to diagnosed cases was below 60%<br />

in two high MDR-TB burden countries in 2015: China (59%)<br />

and Nigeria (53%). These low ratios show that progress in<br />

detection is far outstripping capacity to provide treatment;<br />

they may also reflect weaknesses in data collection systems.<br />

Treatment coverage will not improve globally unless<br />

there is an intensification of efforts in the countries with the<br />

largest burden, particularly China and the Russian Federation,<br />

but also India where the rate of increase in enrolments<br />

has slowed.<br />

In many countries, one of the reasons for inadequate access<br />

to treatment of drug-resistant TB is that the network<br />

for the programmatic management of drug-resistant TB<br />

(PMDT) is too centralized. Hospital-based models of care<br />

continue to dominate in many countries, and hold back<br />

wider use of decentralized ambulatory care, a change of direction<br />

that could expand population access to PMDT (see<br />

also Chapter 6). In addition, gaps for palliative and end-oflife<br />

care are evident. In 2015, only 34 countries (including<br />

16 of the 30 high MDR-TB burden countries) reported that<br />

such services were provided within the scope of their NTPs.<br />

4.3 Treatment outcomes<br />

This section highlights the latest results of treatment for<br />

people who started TB treatment on a first-line regimen<br />

in 2014, and people that started a second-line regimen for<br />

MDR/RR-TB in 2013.<br />

4.3.1 Treatment outcomes for new and relapse TB<br />

patients<br />

The definitions of TB treatment outcomes for new and<br />

relapse cases of TB that are recommended by WHO are<br />

provided in an updated recording and reporting framework<br />

76 :: GLOBAL <strong>TUBERCULOSIS</strong> REPORT 2016

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