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'' These two regions are areas with high TB burden, '' she said Saturday in an interview with APS at the closing of the International Health and Medical Equipment Exhibition. Dakar (SISDAK).
"For the missing cases, it is mainly people who are coughing or who have suffered from tuberculosis and who have not yet gone to the health structures to be tested or to be cared for. "
" The people of Dakar and Thies should have the reflex to go to be screened in case of prolonged cough, "said Diagne, noting that tuberculosis is a '' stigmatizing disease ''
According to her, this means that the disease itself and the signs of its manifestation "are not well known by the population in order to reach the health structures".
There is also a trivialization of the cough in Senegal and Africa, which means that people do not have the reflex to go to a health facility to find out their origin.
According to Ms. Diagne, it is even a paradox that regions of Dakar and Thiès are cited as "grenier" of the missing cases of tuberculosis, in view of the availability of the information necessary for a good care.
Paradoxically, she says, it is in these regions where tuberculosis is the least known in the image of Saint-Louis, Kaolack, Ziguinchor and Diourbel, where we find the largest number of patients.
She is nonetheless optimistic about the PNT's capacity to circumscribe the disease in these high-burden areas, thanks to the communication and sensitization activities carried out there, especially at the community level.
"It is a disease that was little known and which affects especially young people who with the advent of social networks where we communicate more and more, begin to know what it is that tuberculosis '', reassures Néné Diallo Diagne.
For the research of the missing cases, it reveals that there is a mobile unit radiology that travels high-burden regions for advanced strategies, as well as the prison environment to detect tuberculosis cases.
'' It's a closed environment and we go there for early detection sessions because the development of the disease in these places can bring difficulties. Why do we go there to collect suspected cases and if necessary, ensure care ", she says.
The communication officer of the NTP has also welcomed the good care identified cases and satisfactory rate of cure estimated at 90%.
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