Control Tuberculoza – Improving the health of the population in Romania by increasing TB control

In Romania, each year, 1.100 persons die of tuberculosis and another are diagnosed, most of them among the young and active population.

Romania has the highest tuberculosis incidence in the European Union (5 times higher than the EU average), providing about 20% of the TB cases reported in the EU, considering that it has only 4% of the European Union population.

The major challenge in tuberculosis control, in Romania, is owned to the chronic under-finance of the National Tuberculosis Control Program, which led to:

Problems in ensuring a rapid and complete diagnostic, especially for multidrug resistant extensively resistant TB;
Problems in ensuring correct, complete and quality treatment, for multidrug resistant extensively resistant TB;
Problems in ensuring treatment adherence.

The project “Improving the Health Status of the Romanian population by Increasing Tuberculosis Control” proposes to strengthen tuberculosis control in Romania, with focus on multidrug resistant TB and poor and vulnerable groups.

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