Government and civil society advocates working on response to tuberculosis in Anambra state say the burden of the disease may not reduce except the state government demonstrates the needed financial commitment to TB control program.
They expressed worry that despite worrying statistics around tuberculosis, there have been little or no releases to enable the implementation of the budget line of N50 million annually for 2022 and 2023.
The campaigners made the call at a meeting held in Awka for critical stakeholders including officials from the ministries of Health as well as Budget and Economic Planning, as part of the Fund TB project funded by USAID through the Palladium Group in five South-East and South-South states, under its Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) programme.
In a presentation, the Monitoring and Evaluation Focal Person for the State TB Control Program, Mrs Chiamaka Oguejiofor, revealed that the annual prevalence rate of TB in the state is at 323 per 100,000 persons while incidence rate is put at 219 per 100,000.
According to her, Anambra in 2023 met 95% of its TB case finding target with 90% treatment success rate.
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