Despite around one-per-cent decline in the global TB transmission every year, TB transmission in Myanmar is declining by 4.8 per cent every year, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.
According to the Global TB report 2019, 338 in 100,000 populations around the globe suffer from TB and 39 in 100,000 populations die of TB.
According to the WHO’s estimate, one-fourths of the global population have latent Tuberculosis infection. According to the End TB, Myanmar has set a goal of reducing the number of TB patients to less than 10 in one million population in 2035.
The ministry detected and cured around 140,000 TB patients despite the estimated number of 180,000 TB patients in 2018. The ministry’s mobile TB screening teams carried out accelerated TB case findings in rural areas, remote areas, worksites and prisons etc.
For the eradication of TB, the government allotted a budget of Ks 14 million in 1995-1996 FY, Ks 626 million in 2010-2021 FY and Ks over 4,000 million in 2018-19 FY, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.
Since 2015, the ministry has been carrying out TB/HIV co-infection programs. In 2016, the ministry worked on the detection and treatment of drug-resistant patients in all townships nationwide. The treatment success rate for drug-resistant patients was 79 per cent in 2016.
