[The effect analysis of tuberculosis control project loaned by World Bank in Guangdong province].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of tuberculosis control project loaned by World Bank in Guangdong province. METHODS: The registration and the treatment effect of pulmonary tuberculosis patients according to Guangdong tuberculosis report were analyzed. RESULTS: The above program had been conducted widespread since 1995. Over the past five years, 601,913 cases of suspicious tuberculosis patients have been received and diagnosed, in which 111,164 infectious patients (containing 91,612 newly-attacked infectious cases) were found. Just in 1999, the number of newly-attacked infectious patients was 1.2 times to that(19,858 newly-attacked infectious cases) of 1981-1990 prior to this program. And the average cure rate of infectious patients reached to 95.2%. The cure rate showed an uptrend amounting to 97.2% from 87.6%. CONCLUSION: Satisfactory effect have been achieved by the World-Bank loaned TB control project in Guangdong province.