Table 2.
National and regional cumulative incidence of bacteriologically confirmed childhood pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia by age group and sex from August 2017 to January 2019 (N = 99)
| Region | HF report | Regional and National Total under 15 children |
Age group | Under 15 children by sex | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | Male | Female | |||||||||||||||
| Population | Total cumulative new Cases | cases per 105 | population | cases | cases per 105 | population | Cases | cases per 105 | population | Cases | cases per 105 | population | cases | cases per 105 | population | cases | cases per 105 | ||
| National | 62/199 | 1,945,009 | 99 | 5.1 | 704,762 | 5 | 0.71 | 648,490 | 15 | 2.31 | 591,758 | 79 | 13.35 | 985,949 | 48 | 4.87 | 959,062 | 51 | 5.32 |
| Tigray | 2/10 | 81,506 | 2 | 2.45 | 28,771 | 0 | 0 | 26,972 | 0 | 0 | 25,764 | 2 | 7.76 | 41,415 | 2 | 4.83 | 40,089 | 0 | 0 |
| Amhara | 6/39 | 321,109 | 8 | 2.49 | 89,952 | 2 | 2.22 | 87,898 | 1 | 1.14 | 85,625 | 5 | 5.84 | 133,281 | 4 | 3 | 130,210 | 4 | 3.1 |
| Oromia | 31/80 | 841,750 | 44 | 5.23 | 302,806 | 2 | 0.66 | 275,682 | 6 | 2.2 | 263,262 | 36 | 13.67 | 426,286 | 19 | 4.5 | 415,464 | 25 | 6.02 |
| Somali | 1/2 | 25,417 | 2 | 7.87 | 10,392 | 0 | 0 | 9274 | 0 | 0 | 5751 | 2 | 34.8 | 13,071 | 0 | 0 | 12,346 | 1 | 8.1 |
| SNNPR | 18/44 | 456,314 | 37 | 8.1 | 162,904 | 1 | 0.61 | 146,554 | 8 | 5.46 | 146,857 | 28 | 19.16 | 230,206 | 21 | 9.12 | 226,108 | 16 | 7.16 |
| Gambella | 1/2 | 8638 | 1 | 11.57 | 3071 | 0 | 0 | 2849 | 0 | 0 | 2719 | 1 | 37 | 4438 | 0 | 0 | 4201 | 1 | 24 |
| Harari | 1/2 | 15,954 | 1 | 6.3 | 5512 | 0 | 0 | 5295 | 0 | 0 | 5147 | 1 | 19.43 | 8,150 | 0 | 0 | 7,803 | 1 | 12.82 |
| Addis Ababa | 2/11 | 90,111 | 4 | 4.44 | 37,640 | 0 | 0 | 31,878 | 0 | 0 | 20,594 | 4 | 19.42 | 44,952 | 2 | 4.45 | 45,153 | 2 | 4.43 |
Abbreviations: HF = Health Facility; SNNPR = Southern Nations Nationalities & Peoples Region