Table 1. Development and implementation of policies for co-trimoxazole prophylaxis and isoniazid preventive therapy in World Health Organization regions, 2007.
Region | Countries receiving survey | Countries responding to survey |
Countries with CTXp policy |
Countries with nationwide implementation of CXTp policya |
Countries with IPT policy |
Countries with nationwide implementation of IPT policya |
Respondent countries | ||||||||||
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No. | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |||||||
African Region | 31 | 17 | 55 | 16 | 94 | 11 | 69 | 8 | 47 | 1 | 13 | Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe | |||||
Region of the Americas | 10 | 6 | 60 | 6 | 100 | 4 | 67 | 5 | 83 | 2 | 40 | Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago | |||||
Eastern Mediterranean Region | 5 | 3 | 60 | 3 | 100 | 2 | 67 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 100 | Iran, Somalia, Sudan | |||||
European Region | 11 | 7 | 64 | 6 | 86 | 3 | 50 | 5 | 71 | 2 | 40 | Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine | |||||
South-East Asia Region | 5 | 4 | 80 | 4 | 100 | 2 | 50 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 0 | India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand | |||||
Western Pacific Region | 7 | 4 | 57 | 3 | 75 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cambodia, China, Philippines, Viet Nam | |||||
Total | 69 | 41 | 59 | 38 | 93 | 25 | 66 | 21 | 51 | 6 | 28 | All countries |
CTXp, co-trimoxazole prophylaxis; ITP, isoniazid preventive therapy.
a Countries providing co-trimoxazole prophylaxis and isoniazid preventive therapy to people living with HIV in all the regions and districts in the country were considered to have achieved nationwide implementation.