<narrative xml:lang="en">Tuberculosis - Niger (01-Jul-2006-30-Jun-2011)</narrative>

47045-NGR-506-G05-T-1

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

<narrative xml:lang="en">Tuberculosis - Niger (01-Jul-2006-30-Jun-2011)</narrative> Niger is classified as a low-income country with a population of nearly 11 million over an area of 1,267,000 km2 (80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert). It has the highest fertility rate in the world with 7.5 children per woman and the mortality rate for children under 5 is approximately 50 percent high than any other African country. For the past five decades, tuberculosis (TB) has been deemed a public health priority in Niger. The TB control program was maintained and coordinated by the National Anti-Tuberculosis Centre and its representative offices. This vertical and centralized approach has since been replaced and Niger has instead opted for a decentralized strategy, calling for the integration of anti-TB activities into health care services. Tuberculosis infection has registered a sharp increase in 2005, with the number of cases detected in one region per day increasing sevenfold (from 2 to 15). In 2004, 4,981 new smear-positive cases were registered. The total number of all forms of TB rose to 7,350, with an estimated incidence rate of 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and a screening rate of 42.7 percent. This program will address gaps in financing the National Tuberculosis Control Program and will considerably expand and strengthen the comprehensive response to TB, by increasing the screening rate of new smear-positive cases and its coverage, improving the quality of DOTS, managing TB/HIV patients, and raising community awareness. With the global target set at 70 percent, the progress today already shows an increase in detection rate at 53 percent. The treatment success rate following DOTS has improved to a level of 77 percent (the global target being 85 percent).

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global Health Campus, Chemin du Pommier 40, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland

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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global Health Campus, Chemin du Pommier 40, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland

Niger

Tuberculosis

-304871.45 Global Fund Commitment to NGR-506-G05-TP01.

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria