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Tuberculosis treatment success rate (% of new cases)

Definition: Tuberculosis treatment success rate is the percentage of all new tuberculosis cases (or new and relapse cases for some countries) registered under a national tuberculosis control programme in a given year that successfully completed treatment, with or without bacteriological evidence of success ("cured" and "treatment completed" respectively).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report.

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Year Value
2000 74.00
2001 40.00
2002 79.00
2003 95.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention