Deputy PM calls for stronger actions to eliminate TB by 2030
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested stronger and more effective actions to wipe out tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at a ceremony held in Hanoi on March 23 in response to the World Tuberculosis Day 2019.
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested strongerand more effective actions to wipe out tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at a ceremonyheld in Hanoi on March 23 in response to the World Tuberculosis Day 2019.
“We need to do better communication work to raise public awareness of TB whichtakes many lives each year. Although TB is an infectious disease, it istreatable and curable thanks to the medical technology advances”, he stressed.
Financial mechanisms as well as application of new technologies and treatmentshould be encouraged while people from all walks of life should be engaged inthe fight against TB, he added.
According to Prof. Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhung,head of the National TB Prevention Programme and Director of the National LungHospital, Vietnam is in the world’s top 30 countries with high TB burden.The country ranks 16th in the number of TB patients and 13th in the rankings of drug-resistant TB patients. Seventy percent of the TBpatients are of working age (between 15 and 55).
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that there were 124,000 new TBcases in Vietnam in 2017. During that year, the disease killed 12,000 people,much higher than the number of fatalities due to traffic accidents the sametime.
Thanks to the national strategy on TB prevention, coupled with advanceddiagnosis system, the TB cases in the country fell dramatically. In the pastdecade, TB cases drop 31 percent, average 3.8 percent each year.
The WHO said that Vietnam is on the right track to end TB by 2030. However,Nhung said that the TB prevention programme is facing various challenges,particularly in maintaining sustainable achievements until 2030, and engaging thesociety in the fight against TB.
On the occasion, the National Lung Hospital, NationalTuberculosis Control Programme, TB Patients Support Fund in collaboration withthe national humanitarian information portal 1400 launched a text messagecampaign to mobilise financial sources to help needy TB patients.-VNA
Vietnam is one of the leading countries in the world in implementing the End TB Strategy of the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to Director of the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme Tereza Kasaeva.
Vietnam is now able to treat all strains of multi-drug-resistant and totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) with short-term treatment regimens using newly accessible drugs.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on July 26 hosted a reception for Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has committed to wiping out tuberculosis (TB) in Vietnam by 2030 while addressing the High-Level TB Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The National Lung Hospital, the National Programme against Tuberculosis (TB) and the Patients Support Foundation to End Tuberculosis (PASTB) and the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 have launched a text message campaign to support TB patients.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (Photo: VNA) 
