Budget fears as TB figures fall
Health officials and workers are concerned about budget shortages for the treatment of tuberculosis in the Kingdom as new data reveals that prevalence of the disease has declined 37 percent from 2002, officials said yesterday. Mao Tan Eang, director of the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control, said at a workshop in the capital that a national survey revealed that tuberculosis prevalence declined from 269 infected people per 100,000 in 2002, to 170 per 100,000 people in 2011. “[I] want to express my concern for Cambodia in the next period, even though we have seen the prevalence rate decline,” he said… Mom Kunthear with additional reporting by Mary Kozlovski, p.6
