Vol 125, October 1984, pages 136-141. In China China, which created a national tuberculosis control programme in the early 1990's, has had great success in controlling the infectious disease. In addition, the government significantly reduced the price of tuberculosis medicine, making it affordable for TB infected patients who were financially challenged. The outcome of this project yielded some of the most successful results found in the world. In Tanzania Tanzania has utilized a strategy similar to China's in the fight against tuberculosis.
Immediate treatment involves the drugs isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and streptomycin.
Patients are treated with these drugs each day for two months. Thereafter, treatments involve only the isoniazid and rifampicin every other day for three months. If interested in a New York control-case, please refer to New York's Success Story . The World Health Organization estimates that the annual number of new cases of tuberculosis will increase from 7.5 million in 1990 to 10.2 million in the year 2000, a global escalation that will produce almost 90 million new cases this decade. Each team was assigned a specific topic having to do with Tuberculosis .