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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, December 26 (Xinhua) — Over the past 10 years, tuberculosis mortality in Russia has decreased sevenfold, and the incidence rate has fallen 3.5-fold. This was announced on Thursday by Irina Vasilyeva, Director of the National Medical Research Center for Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases in Moscow, according to the press service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
During an open meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Scientific Council "Life Sciences," I. Vasilyeva highlighted Russian advances in tuberculosis prevention and treatment, such as the recombinant allergen "Diaskintest" for diagnostics, which has been implemented globally, and a personalized approach to treatment based on drug resistance testing. She also presented the latest Russian advances in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease, namely, an automated system for rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis resistance and new types of drugs.
According to Atajan Ergeshov, Director of the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Russia's rapid tuberculosis diagnostic coverage (93%) exceeds the global and European averages. Among the remaining challenges in treating the disease, he cited the high proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which accounts for 36 percent of new cases, and the co-infection of TB and HIV, which accounts for 25 percent of patients.
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