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Bulgaria to receive 9.5M euro to tackle tuberculosis

Thu, Oct 08 2009 15:04 CET byNick Iliev 1435 Views
Bulgaria to receive 9.5M euro to tackle tuberculosis

A girl queues for anti-tuberculosis drugs at the Blue house clinic, run by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the Mathare valley slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi, October 25, 2006.
Most of the nine million people who fall ill with tuberculosis each year lack access to adequate testing and diagnosis, complicating efforts to stop its spread, according to the WHO.


Bulgaria is poised to receive 9.5 million euro for the fight against tuberculosis, and the country is set to sign a new agreement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, by the end of November 2009, the Bulgarian Health Ministry's press office has announced, cited by Dnevnik daily on October 8 2009.

The campaign to tackle tuberculosis in the country is a five-year programme, scheduled to begin in January 2010. The aim is to reduce the number of cases down to 27 in every 100 000 by 2014 from the current 38 in every 100 000.

Another paramount objective of the programme is to deal successfully with the so called multi-resistant tuberculosis because, according to the World Health Organisation, (WHO), Bulgaria is among the 27 most affected countries in the world.

Tuberculosis is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria. In humans, mycobacterium tuberculosis is the primary causative bacterium although other mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium bovis, and Mycobacterium africanum, among others, can also lead to contracting the disease.

The disease is particularly potent because tuberculosis is spread through the air, so affected people can transmit it through coughing, sneezing and spitting.

To date, the Bulgarian Health Ministry has received more than 21 million euro under the "Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria" programme.

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