Welcome to TB/HIV Research Foundation (THRF), Chiang Rai, Rai Thailand Local Wisdom‌Global Knowledge
The visit of the delegates from the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) and the International Advocacy Officer to THRF - 29 January 2011 Thailand.
Acknowledgement • The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Anti( ) Tuberculosis Association (RIT/JATA) •Double barred cross seal donation of Japan • Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention (JFAP) • Stop TB Partnership (CFCS grant) • The Th Mitsubishi Mit bi hi Foundation F d ti
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Presentation outline - Knowing THRF - Knowing TB and TB/HIV - Knowing Chiang Rai and situations of TB and TB/HIV in g Rai Chiang - Challenges and opportunities for control TB and TB/HIV in Chiang Rai - Empowering community and people with TB and TB/HIV * Patient volunteers": The important human resource for TB/HIV care * Center for Sharing: Mobilizing women volunteers to support poor patients
- Comments,, recommendation and commitments from the delegates.
Knowing TB and TB/HIV
TB…one of the oldest di diseases (>4,000 (>4 000 years))
In the old days TB was the th di disease off VIP
Chopin, Pianist, composer Emperor Akihito Japan Nelson Mandela, former-president, South Africa
22 countries t i with high TB burden in the world. (WHO, 2009)
1. India 2 - China 3.Indonesia 4 - Nigeria 5 - South Africa 6 - Bangladesh 7 - Ethiopia 8 - Pakistan 9.Philippines 10 - Democratic Republic of Congo 11 - Russian Federation 12 - Viet Nam 13 - Kenya y 14 - Brazil 15 - United Republic of Tanzania 16. Uganda 17 - Zimbabwe 18.Thailand 19 - Mozambique 20 M 20.Myanmar 21 - Cambodia 22 - Afghanistan
TB is transmitted by the tuberculosis patients who d nott receive do i treatment t t t (when coughing, sneezing, spitting, speaking)
1 untreated TB case will infect approximately 10-15 10 15 people every year (an untreated TB patients who have drug drug-resistant strain will also transmit the resistant resistant-strain to others)
A TB patient who does not receive TB treatment
The best way y to prevent TB transmission is to cure TB patients
TB/HIV Research Project(RIT Project(RIT-JATA)
The Travelling of TB Germs‌ TB without border
TB/HIV Research Project (RIT-JATA)
TB is curable by using 4 drugs f 6-8 for 6 8 months th http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/tuberculosis p gy _3.html
isoniazid,
rifampicin, p
py pyrazinamide,
ethambutol.
Why y TB/HIV? • HIV is the most powerful known risk factor for reactivating latent TB infections into TB diseases • TB is the leading cause of death in PLHIV
Not TB infected
Latent TB infection
Active TB (disease)
HIV infection (70 - 113 ti times risk) i k)
Knowing Chiang Rai and situations of TB and TB/HIV
• Population ~ 67 million (2010) • Living with HIV ~ 610,000(2007) • HIV adult prevalence 1.4%(2007) • TB cases ~ 55,000 (2007) • TB incidence ~ 142/100,000 142/100 000 • ranked 18th of the 22 high burden countries (WHO 2010) Map of Thailand 10/11/2011
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China Vietnam
Chiang Rai Province •Migrants from Myanmar and Laos
Chiangg Rai Golden--Triangle Golden Bangkok Cambodia
•Hill Hill--tribe population : 13% 13%
• Population ~ ~1 1.3 millions • Areas 11 11,,678 sq.kms. q (~30 (~ 30% % mountain/forest) • 18 Districts
Population ~ 1.3 million Living with HIV 9922 TB notification tifi ti rate t 144/100,000 144/100 000 population l ti 2500
HIV positive in TB patients 46% in 1998 2000 1500 1000 500
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HIV negative
HIV unknown 16
Number of reported TB cases among Th i hilltribes Thai, hillt ib and d migrants i t in i 2000-2009 2000 2009
Percentage of Thai, hilltribes and migrants TB patients ti t who h died di d during d i TB treatment t t t in i 2000-2009 2000 2009
Percentage of Thai, hilltribes and migrants TB patients who dropped pp out from TB treatment more than 2 moths in 2000-2009
Number of reported TB cases among male, f female l adults d lt and d children hild in i 2000-2009 2000 2009
Number of reported among children TB cases in 2000 2009 2000-2009
Percentage of male adult, female adult TB patients who dropped out from TB treatment more than 2 moths in 2000-2009 2000 2009
Number of reported TB cases with and without ith t HIV-co HIV i f ti infection in i 2000-2009 2000 2009
Percentage of TB cases with and without HIV-co infection who died during TB treatment in 2000-2009
Percentage of TB cases with and without HIV-co co infection ect o who od dropped opped out from o TB ttreatment eat e t more than 2 moths in 2000-2009
Children who died during TB treatment i Chi in Chiang R Raii
Children TB cases who died during TB treatment in 2000-2009
Characteristics
Children 0-4 years
Children 5-14 years
Died/Total(%)
Died/Total(%)
18/194 ((9.3%))
44/377 ((11.7%))
Girl
8/94 (8.5%)
22/199 (11.1%)
B Boy
10/100 (10%)
22/178 (12.4%) (12 4%)
Thai
7/98 (7.1%)
30/198 (15.2%)
Hilltribe
3/60 (5%)
10/102 (9.8%)
NonThai
8/36 (22.2%)
4/77 (5.2%)
Without HIV-co infection
6/92 (6.5%)
6/156 (3.8%)
With HIV-co infection
9/24 (37.5%)
32/98 (32.7%)
HIV unknown
3/78 (3.8%)
6/123 (4.9%)
Gender
Race
HIV co infection HIV-co
Children TB cases who died during TB treatment in 2000-2009
Characteristics Without HIV-co infection Thai Hilltribe NonThai With HIV-co infection Thai Hilltribe NonThai HIV unknown Thai Hilltribe NonThai
Children 0-4 years Died/Total(%) 18/194 ((9.3%))
Children 5-14 years Died/Total(%) 44/377 ((11.7%))
0/40 (0%) 1/32 (3.1%) (3 1%) 5/20 (25%)
1/62 (1.6%) 3/48 (6.3%) (6 3%) 2/46 (4.3%)
7/17 (41.2%) 1/2 (50%) 1/5 ((20%))
27/80 (33.8%) 4/7 (57.1%) 1/11 ((9.1%))
0/41 (0%) 1/26 (3.8%) (3 8%) 2/11 (18.2%)
2/56 (3.6%) 3/47 (6.4%) (6 4%) 1/20 (5%)