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Nevada reports approximately 100 newly diagnosed cases
of TB disease each year, and consistently ranks among
the top twenty states with the highest rates of TB.
Globally, at least one person is infected with TB per
second, and someone dies of TB every ten seconds.
Tuberculosis kills 2-3 million people each year, more
than any other infectious disease in the world today. It
is a bigger killer than malaria and AIDS combined. It
kills 100,000 children each year. One-third of the
world's population is infected with TB. It is estimated
that between now and the year 2020, nearly one billion
more people will be infected, 200 million people will
get sick, and 70 million will die from TB, if control is
not strengthened.
In 1998, 18,371 TB cases were reported in the United
States, a decline of 7.46% from the 19,851 cases
reported in 1997. This represents the sixth consecutive
year that TB cases declined in the U.S., suggesting that
the nation is recovering from the resurgence of TB that
occurred in the mid-1980s and is back on track toward TB
elimination. However, several areas of ongoing concern
remain.
TB cases born outside of the U.S. comprised 32% of the
1998 cases. This is an increase from 23% in 1993. Of the
411 foreign-born cases reported in 1998, 34.8% were from
Haiti, 10.5% were from Cuba, 6.1% were from Mexico, 4.1%
were from Nicaragua, 3.9% were from the Philippines,
3.9% were from India, 3.6% were from Peru, and 3.4% were
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The Nevada State Health Division TB Elimination Program
is supported in part by a continuing competitive grant
(FY05-FY09 No. 5U52PS907855) from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The mission of the
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) is to
promote health and quality of life by preventing,
controlling, and eventually eliminating tuberculosis
from the United States, and by collaborating with other
countries and international partners in controlling
tuberculosis world-wide.
Funds are available to assist the current efforts of
State and local TB programs to address the core TB
prevention and control activities (i.e., completion of
therapy, contact investigation, TB surveillance, TB
public health laboratory, human resource development,
and program evaluation).
The funding formula (below) will be utilized to
calculate the distribution of funds for the new funding
cycle beginning FY2010. The actual numbers will be
derived from the averaged TB data reported to the CDC
for Calendar years 2004-2008:
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Incident cases – 30%
- U.S.
–borne minorities and foreign-born persons – 35%
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Persons with smear or culture-positive pulmonary TB
-15%
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Persons coinfected with HIV – 5%
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Persons with MDR TB – 5%
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Substance abusers – 5%
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Homeless – 5%
TB programs funded through cooperative agreements are
expected to report on their progress toward achieving
all national TB program objective categories.
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