Kaduna recorded 32,297 cases of tuberculosis in 2023, says commissioner

government said it has improved in Tuberculosis case detection and reduced the risk of spreading the disease, as 32,297 cases were detected in the state in 2023.

“This represents an increase of 49.8 percent compared to 2022. This case detection rate represents 159 percent of the state TB case detection target.” “Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 66 million lives since 2000. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress made in the fight to end TB. For the first time in over a decade, TB deaths increased in 2020.“This conveys the urgent need to invest resources to ramp up the fight against TB and achieve global leaders’ commitments to end TB.

“We will continue supporting this until every facility in the State provides TB services. She also said the State’s treatment success rate is about 98.4 percent indicating that the diagnosed cases of TB were managed successfully,” she assured.

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