Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso wants to reduce the number of tuberculosis cases, from 44 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to less than 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants by 2030, AIB learned from the National Tuberculosis Control Program.The number of people suffering from tuberculosis in 2022 in Burkina Faso was estimated at 8,613 people, or 44 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, said on May 22, 2024, the head of monitoring and evaluation of the National Tuberculosis Program (PNT). ), Dr Adama Diallo.However, the program deplores the non-screening of many healthy careers who continue to contaminate other people.For Dr Diallo, Burkina Faso plans to eradicate tuberculosis by 2030 with less than 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.The monitoring-evaluation manager spoke at a discussion workshop with around twenty journalists, including one from the AIB.According to him, the disease is curable if detected early. For this, he invited patients with a cough lasting more than 14 days to be tested at health centers in order to benefit from treatment.Dr Adama Diallo also added that drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis patients are free and available in the 111 diagnosis and treatment centers, with a treatment duration of 6 to 12 months.'In addition to treatment, the tuberculosis patient suffering from HIV or the prisoner benefits from nutritional support amounting to 44,500 FCFA per quarter and a hygiene kit composed, among other things, of soap, kettles, mats and blankets,' he said.Dr. Diallo insisted that we must encourage populations to go to health facilities for early diagnosis of the disease and also adopt measures that will prevent contamination by sick people.According to the specialist, pulmonary tuberculosis remains the most common form of this disease which manifests itself through coughing.Dr Diallo also invited people to wear a mask, cough or sneeze into a tissue and sleep in a ventilated house in order to limit the spread of tuberculosis within the family.'We need journalists to relay this message to the community level in order to effectively fight tuberculosis and be there in 2030 for its total elimination,' he told the media.The National Tuberculosis Control Program was created in 1995 with the aim of effectively combating this disease.Its responsibilities include the mobilization of technical and financial resources, the dissemination of guidelines for combating tuberculosis, and support at the regional level for the implementation of activities to combat tuberculosis.Source: Burkina Information Agency