24th March - World TB Day

World TB Day is the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the day when the German microbiologist Robert Koch celebrated his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis known. In 1993, the World Health Organization declared TB a national emergency, and on 24 March "World TB Day". In 1993, WHO officially recommended DOTS strategy as a new strategy for the control of tuberculosis. The basic principles of DOTS are: political commitment, diagnosis by microscopy, reliable supply of medicines, monitoring of treatment, periodic evaluation. DOTS - a strategy against the tuberculosis epidemic, as it allows you to identify, and to heal the sick, the most dangerous for the environment. Can be 92 to 95% of TB cases heal. Implementation of the DOTS - the rescue of many people from death, disease and suffering. Universal principles of the DOTS strategy for each country. Currently, this strategy is successfully implemented in more than 180 countries. Currently in Ukraine is very difficult situation in terms of tuberculosis. For example, in the Donetsk region every 8 hours a person dies of TB. Furthermore, it was found that every 2.5 hours recorded in a new patient every 15 minutes with tubercle bacilli infected child. In the area of population 11,004 patients with active TB. According to doctors, in 2007, the region was 4012 new cases in the civilian sector and discovered 313 - died in prison in 1363, of whom 80% - people of working age. Currently, a third of the world's population is infected, die each year 80 million new cases and 2.5 million TB patients.