By Sola Ogundipe
NIGERIA has the highest incidence rate of tuberculosis in Africa and 7th among the 30 high TB burden countries in the world according to the World Health Organisation.
As part of its commitment towards checkmating the high burden of undiagnosed tuberculosis in Nigeria, Agbami Parties team helped to detect 1,353 cases of TB in six states of the Federation.
The cases were confirmed out of the 5,011 presumptive TB cases in Kano, Oyo, Lagos, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States.
A total of 63, 629 persons were beneficiaries of the activities of Agbami – a member of the Stop TB Partnership initiative and a key contributor towards the elimination of Tuberculosis, in Nigeria.
Disclosing these and other facts in Lagos recently at the 1st National Summit on Public Private Mix (PPM) for TB Control in Nigeria, the Medical Director, Chevron Nigeria…
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