[Implementation of mid-term national tuberculosis control programme]

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the implementation of mid-term National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP).

Method: The construction of tuberculosis control organizations, implementation of tuberculosis control work, etc, were investigated retrospectively.

Results: Almost all the tuberculosis control indices had reached the mid-term NTP target except the case-finding index.

Conclusions: Much more efforts are required to reach the NTP target of year 2000 that the prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis decrease to 70 per 100,000 populations.