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Vietnam sets up national committee to wipe out TB

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishment of a national committee on tuberculosis (TB) eradication.
Vietnam sets up national committee to wipe out TB ảnh 1Giving treatment to TB patients (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishmentof a national committee on tuberculosis (TB) eradication.

Headedby Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, the committee is designed to have a maximumof 20 members. Its operation will be supported by the same apparatus that hasbeen running projects for the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs andProstitution Prevention and Control.

Accordingto Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhung, head of the National TB Prevention Programmeand Director of the National Lung Hospital, Vietnam is in the world’s top 30countries with high TB burden. The country ranks 16th in the number of TBpatients and 13th in the rankings of drug-resistant TB patients. Seventypercent of the TB patients are of working age (between 15 and 55).

Thanksto the national strategy on TB prevention by 2020 with a vision toward 2030 andadvanced diagnosis system, the number of TB cases recorded in Vietnam has so fardropped dramatically.

Inthe past decade, the figure fell by 31 percent, average 3.8 percent each year.

TheWorld Health Organisation said that Vietnam is on the right track to end TB by2030.-VNA
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