Country Details

The Dominican Republic is a country which occupies just over the eastern two-thirds of the Spanish in the Greater Antilles archipelago. The western third of the island is occupied by Haiti, therefore, the Spanish is an island that is shared by two countries. Both of area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest country in the Caribbean (after Cuba), its land area is 48,442 square kilometers. Bordered on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, south to the Caribbean or Caribbean Sea, east by the Mona Passage, which separates it from Puerto Rico, and west by the Republic of Haiti.

TB Situation

In the Dominican Republic, the National Tuberculosis Control (NPTC) is based on the use of scientific rationality, technical and fundamental bioethical principle for extending coverage to all nationwide DOTS / TAES. Gradually, using the facilities and accessibility with which the country.

Implementing the strategy requires the fulfillment of its five basic components: political, unified and standardized schemes shortened treatment and retreatment, regular supply of drugs and laboratory supplies, diagnosis by observation of sputum, culture, identification and PS with a single notification and registration of cases.

By 2010 only identified the 48.48% of the expected SR, whichever is 70%, of which only 90% were examined for a total of 55.711 SR Of these, 2694 were positive for a 4.83% patients. if we observe the fact that only about half were identified than expected, that only leaves half of the cases found by the identification of symptomatic individuals presenting to health services to demand attention to any level.

Already in the study of cases, achieving an incidence of 3640 cases of tuberculosis for a rate of 36.83, with a prevalence of 4160 cases, achieving a rate of 42.1. must acknowledge the great efforts of health facilities, to decrease mortality from tuberculosis in our country, so that ended this year there were 119 deaths, a rate of 1.2. We identified 10 cases of meningeal tuberculosis and extrapulmonary cases of 578, 547 and 108 cases of coinfection drugs resistant tuberculosis cases.

In assessing the completion of treatment of cases which began in 2009, we anticipate that success was achieved in the treatment of tuberculosis of 83.61% for those cases who started treatment with a diagnosis of pulmonary TB smear positive print, and a 70.97% for those who entered with the same diagnosis

TB Mural - Dominican Republic

The TB CARE I Plans for the Coming Year

For next year there are several activities planned, some to expand and others to implement. The main ones are highlighted here:
To Expand the following:
Paint Murals
Model ACMS
Grocers Pharmacies

To Implement the following:
Fotovoces - You can see a Fotovoces (Photovoices) slideshow in English here and in Spanish here
Public-Private focused on Zones