DOTS improves treatment outcomes and service coverage for tuberculosis in South Ethiopia: a retrospective trend analysis

Table 2 Trends in case notification of smear-positive pulmonary TB, Hadiya Zone, 1994–2001

Year	Zonal Population*	New PTB+ cases Reported (n = 8558)	Case Notification/ 10⁵ persons/year	Proportion of estimated PTB+ incident cases notified, %**
1994	1004000	512	49	45.2
1995	1070160	1025	96	87.9
1996	1101195	1162	106	96.8
1997	1133129	946	84	76.6
1998	1165990	1277	110	100.5
1999	1199804	1510	126	115.5
2000	1234598	1267	103	94.2
2001^§	1174118	858	73	67.0

*Projected from the 1994 Population and Housing Census, CSA [13]
**Estimated Incidence of PTB+ = 109/10⁵ persons/year based on the WHO estimates of the Global Burden of Tuberculosis for 1997 [1]
^§ Population adjusted as an area with about 70–80 thousand population was taken away from Hadiya to the neighbouring Silti zone between years 2000 and 2001
PTB+: smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis

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