Busia County Department of Health in partnership with Impact Research Organization has conducted a three days cross-border TB screening to help in identifying TB whose case identification rate remains low.
Speaking during the exercise at the border point, Busia County TB and Leprosy Coordinator Mary Aseyong said there were unidentified cases of TB and the cross-border screening would help identify them. "Our TB case burden is at 1381 cases for 2024 translating to a case notification rate of 138 TB per 100,000 populations.
This is still low and it shows we are not doing well as a county in terms of case notification.
The country's expected case notification rate for TB is 426 per 100,000 populations.
