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Adopt and present a resolution recognizing March 24, 2019 as World Tuberculosis (TB) Day (Chairwoman Hannigan)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health and Social Services (H&SS) recommends that the Board adopt and present a resolution recognizing March 24, 2019 as World Tuberculosis (TB) Day.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) has declared March 24, 2019 as World Tuberculosis (TB) Day and is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of TB worldwide and the status of TB prevention and care efforts. It is also an opportunity to mobilize social and political commitment for further progress on efforts to end TB in conjunction with the World Health Organization's sustainable development agenda. This resolution will recognize that all residents of Solano County can help by taking steps towards creating awareness and preventing TB in our community.
The World TB Day 2019 theme is "It's TIME" and has a very strong meaning: It's TIME for a world without TB. It's TIME to treat the 40 million people affected by TB by 2022. It's TIME to know your TB status.
In the United States, an estimated 13 million people have latent TB infection. Up to one in ten people with latent TB infection will develop active TB disease. In 2017, 9,105 people were diagnosed with active TB disease in the U.S. According to the California Department of Public Health, in 2017 an estimated 2 million California residents had latent TB infection and 2,057 people were diagnosed with active TB disease. A short course of curative antibiotic treatment can be administered so that latent TB infection does not progress into active TB disease. The cost for treatment of latent TB infection is approximately $500, compared to the average cost of $17,000 to treat active TB disease.
In 2018, Solano County's Tuberculo...
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