| Summary: | The Women's Health and Development Programme (WHOP) of BRAC
initiated a community based tuberculosis {TB) control programme in
10 thanas in June, 1992 to complement and supplement the government
TB control programme. The Research and Evaluation Division
conducted a study on 181 TB patients who completed the anti-TB
treatment on or before June, 1993 to investigate their a) socioeconomic
and physical condition and b) measures taken for the
patients who had cough for more than four weeks after completion of
treatment.
The study was conducted in all 10 thanas of WHOP in July 1994 and
data· was collected from 181 patients administering a pretested
questionnaire.
About 72.0% of ~he patients were male indicative that the males are
suffering from TB more than female or their morbidity is more
reported than the female. Similar results were also found in
national prevalence survey in 1987. Almost 67.0% of the patients
came ·from target · group {TG), possibly the programme was more
focused to the TG families. Moreover, 65.0% of the patients were
treated with 12 months, 16.6% with six months, 17.7% with eight
months and 1.1% with nine months treatment regimens.
Sputum of 5 patients (2.8%) were found to be bacteriologically
positive after one month completion of treatment. Moreover, a total
of 9 patients died within one year after completion of treatment,
but the causes of three deaths were found to be confirm~d (cancer,
madness and suicide).
Forty (24.4%) of ~he surveyed patients complained of history of
cough for more than 4 weeks but 52.5% of them did not take any
treatment, while sputum was examined for 32.5% of the cases.
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