{"id":130804,"date":"2025-03-20T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"homiel-region-leading-in-tb-incidence-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/130804\/","title":{"rendered":"Homiel region leading in TB incidence \u2013 health ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 20, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The mortality rate for tuberculosis (TB) patients dropped from 3.5 to 0.8 per 100,000 people in the eight years since 2016, Alaksandar Bab\u010donak, deputy head of the National Center for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis, has told journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TB incidence rates fell from 34 to 13.7 per 100,000 in this period, while the share of patients with multidrug-resistant TB who completed the treatment course went up from 67 to 82 percent, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minsk reported the lowest TB incidence rate of five per 100,000 people, while the Homiel region posted the highest rate of 17 per 100,000, Bab\u010donak said, linking the latter fact to numerous HIV-infected people in the region who account for one in ten TB patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every third TB patient in Belarus has a multidrug-resistant form of TB, which exceeds the global average of 21 percent, his colleague D\u017amitryj Viatu\u0161ka added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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