ABUJA – Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has decried the high rate of tuberculosis case detection and treatment in Nigeria, saying it is unacceptable that over 170,000 people die yearly from the disease across the country.Mrs Buhari, who stressed the need to accelerate efforts toward combating the disease, promised to use her position to mobilise more resources for TB from government.
According to her, “Over 600,000 people become infected with TB in Nigeria every year. It is projected that up to 60,000 of those new cases affect children. On his part, the Chairman, Stop TB Partnership Nigeria, Prof. Lovett Lawson, lamented that Nigeria’s TB case notifications have stagnated for over past five years.
The project, executed through the Sustaining Health Outcomes via Private Sector Plus , seeks to overcome the challenges of missing TB cases in the country.