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. 2023 Mar 24;14(1):1-12.
doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2023.14.1.931. eCollection 2023 Jan-Mar.

Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Mongolia: analysis of surveillance data, 2015-2019

Tsolmon Boldoo  1 , Larissa Otero  2   3 , Borgil Uranchimeg  1 , Anuzaya Purevdagva  4 , Temuulen Enebish  1 , Oyunchimeg Erdenee  1 , Tauhid Islam  3 , Fukushi Morishita  3
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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Mongolia: analysis of surveillance data, 2015-2019

Tsolmon Boldoo et al. Western Pac Surveill Response J. .

Abstract

Mongolia has a high tuberculosis (TB) burden. Data from routine paper-based surveillance were used to describe the epidemiology of TB in Mongolia; the data included testing presumptive TB cases, TB notifications, drug-resistant cases, treatment outcomes and notifications in prisoners. The proportion of the population tested for TB increased between 2015 and 2019. The number and rate per 100 000 population of TB notifications decreased between 2015 and 2018 and then increased in 2019. Most TB notifications in 2019 were in the capital, Ulaanbaatar (59.3%), followed by the central (16.8%), Khangai (10.4%), east (8.5%) and west (5.0%) regions. About half of TB notifications nationally were bacteriologically confirmed (45.4% in 2015, 48.1% in 2019), with the proportion of bacteriologically confirmed TB per province or district varying from 0% to 66%. High TB notification rates were observed in 2019 for males aged 15-54 years (202 per 100 000 population) and females aged 15-34 years (190 per 100 000 population). Treatment success for all forms of TB was 90% in 2019 but was below the 90% target for bacteriologically confirmed cases. Between 2015 and 2019, the number of RR/MDR-TB notifications ranged from 265 to 211. The Mongolian National Tuberculosis Programme needs to continue its efforts in TB control, to further increase the programmatic impact and reduce the TB burden. It is recommended that Mongolia continue to increase TB screening, the use of Xpert testing, contact investigations and preventive treatments, and targeting interventions to the high-burden areas identified in this subnational analysis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Figures

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Proportion of the population examined for TB by test, Mongolia, 2015–2019
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(A) Number and rate per 100 000 population of TB notifications, and (B) TB notification rates per 100 000 population by type of TB, Mongolia, 2015–2019
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(A) TB notification rates per 100 000 population by region, and (B) proportion of TB cases that were bacteriologically confirmed by region, Mongolia, 2015–2019
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Map of TB notification rates per 100 000 population by province, Mongolia, 2019
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Proportion of TB cases that were bacteriologically confirmed by district in Ulaanbaatar (A) and by province in the east (B), central (C), Khangai (D) and west (E) regions, Mongolia, 2015–2019
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Number and rate per 100 000 population of TB notifications by sex and age group, Mongolia, 2019
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Proportion of TB notifications by age group and province, Mongolia, 2019
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Number of TB notifications and notification rate per 100 000 population by drug-resistant TB categories, Mongolia, 2015–2019
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Proportion of bacteriologically confirmed TB notifications by treatment outcomes and province, Mongolia, 2019
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