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| Goal |
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. |
|---|---|
| Target |
Target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases |
| Indicator |
Indicator 3.3.2: Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population |
| Related indicators |
2.1.1 3.3.1 3.4.1 3.8.1 |
| Definition and concepts |
Definition: The tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population is defined as the estimated number of new and relapse TB cases (all forms of TB, including cases in people living with HIV) arising in a given year, expressed as a rate per 100,000 population.
Concepts: Direct measurement requires high-quality surveillance systems in which under-reporting is negligible, and strong health systems so that under-diagnosis is also negligible; otherwise indirect estimates are based on notification data and estimates of levels of under-reporting and under-diagnosis. |
| Unit of measure |
Per 100,000 population |
| Data sources |
Holistic Assessment of Health Sector Programme of Work, 2018 |
| Data providers |
Ministry of Health (MoH) |
| Rationale |
The overall goal is to “End the global tuberculosis epidemic”, and correspondingly ambitious targets for reductions in tuberculosis deaths and cases are set for 2030 (80% reduction in incidence rate compared with the level of 2015) and 2035 (90% reduction in incidence rate), in the context of the SDGs. The tuberculosis incidence rate was selected as an indicator for measuring reductions in the number of cases of disease burden. Although this indicator was estimated with considerable uncertainty in most countries in 2014, notifications of cases to national authorities provide a good proxy if there is limited under-reporting of detected cases and limited under or over-diagnosis of cases. |
| Method of computation |
Estimated number of new and relapse TB cases (all forms of TB, including cases in people living with HIV) arising in a given year, expressed as a rate per 100 000 population. |
| Data availability and disaggregation |
There is no available disaggregation for this indicator. |
| Metadata last updated | Nov 09, 2022 |