Health cluster situation report no. 27, 19 Jun 2008

The first joint WHO/MOH Mobile Health Team has returned after a weeklong mission to hard-to-reach areas in Ngaputaw, Labutta and Bogole.

The team gathered information on 126 of 162 tuberculosis patients missing since the cyclone, through intense community participation in villages and camps. This is an important intervention to prevent a longer phase of treatment interruption and emergence of multi-drug resistance. Myanmar is one of the 22 TB high burden countries with 133 000 registered TB patients in 2007, an estimated 10% of those coinfected with TB/HIV.

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