Fourth Global Report

World Health Organization – February 2008 -  WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis

Drug Resistance Surveillance -  WHO/HTM/TB/

Available online as PDF file [142p.] at: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2008/drs_report4_26feb08.pdf

This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. The three previous reports were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 and included data from 35, 58 and 77 countries, respectively. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results from 91,577 patients from 93 settings in 81 countries and 2 Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of China collected between 2002 and 2006, and representing over 35% of the global total of notified new smear-positive TB cases. It includes data from 33 countries that have never previously reported.

New data are available from the following high TB burden countries1: India , China , Russian Federation , Indonesia , Ethiopia , Philippines , Viet Nam , Tanzania , Thailand , and Myanmar . Between 1994 and 2007 a total of 138 settings in 114 countries and 2 SARs of China had reported data to the Global Project.