Cote d'Ivoire: Tuberculosis infections spreading

A young boy is given a vaccination at a health centre in Gongoni, Malindi, Kenya, July 2007 (Image: Allan Gichigi/IRIN)

“The total increase corresponds to an increase of 23,000 cases detected,” said Jacquemin Kouakou, director of the anti-tuberculosis unit at the Health Ministry.

In 2005 there were 18,000 cases of TB in Côte d'Ivoire, rising to 21,000 in 2006, the last time data was available. “The situation is very worrying,” Kouakou said.

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