Tuberculosis surveillance and control in Germany — An application of the Berlin Declaration Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
- 1 December 2012
- journal article
- Published by Akademiai Kiado Zrt. in European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 2 (4), 287-291
- https://doi.org/10.1556/eujmi.2.2012.4.7
Abstract
In 2007, the 'Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis' (BD) was signed by the Ministers of the WHO European Region Member States (MS) to address the re-emerging threat of tuberculosis (TB) by fully implementing the Stop TB strategy. WHO Euro developed a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework using programmatic and epidemiological indicators to follow-up the BD from 2013 onwards. Ahead of this, we explored the Framework performance for Germany, a low TB incidence country. We selected from a surveillance perspective on five country-specific indicators asked for all MS. Information sources included guidelines, notification data and laboratory quality assurance results. As to national TB guidelines (indicator 1.1.1), up-to-date guidance documents are available. Regarding external quality assurance (3.2) proficiency testing confirms high quality of culture and drug-susceptibility testing. M/XDR-TB prevention and control is reflected by a 1.7% MDR-TB rate in 2010 with decreasing tendency (4.1.2). As to treatment success (5), the WHO target of 85% is reached for all age groups except the elderly ≥60 years. Germany disposes of an electronic case-based surveillance providing evidence for TB policy and practices (5.2.2). The selected M&E Framework indicators proved well applicable to a low-incidence country. The results show no specific gaps in TB surveillance and control in Germany.Keywords
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