PRO/EDR> Tuberculosis, MDR – Papua New Guinea (02): (WE) comment, RFI

Tuberculosis — Papua New Guinea
The data presented in the news report are not correct.
In 2015 there were a total of 495 patients registered in South Fly [Western Province] with TB, of which 39% or 194 had extra-pulmonary TB and 301 had pulmonary TB. Of interest, the TB/HIV rate is low, about 3% of the cohort are co-infected, with high percentages tested.
[South Fly, with a population of 46 407 at the 2000 census, is a district of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Daru, with a population of 20