Table 1.

Epidemiology and Number of Confirmed MDR-TB Cases in East Africa as Reported by the WHO: 2005 – 2011^a

East African Country	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Burundi
Population in million	7	8	8	8	8	8	9
TB cases notified	6,585	6,114	6,284	6,808	7,277	7,719	6,828
Confirmed MDR-TB cases†	-	0	26	17	0	24	6
% of TB cases that is MDR	-	0	0.41	0.25	0	0.31	0.09
Kenya
Population in million	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
TB cases notified	102,680	108,342	106,438	99,941	102,997	106,083	103,981
Confirmed MDR-TB cases†	44	89	82	102	150	112	166
% of TB cases that is MDR	0.04	0.08	0.08	0.10	0.15	0.11	0.16
Rwanda
Population in million	9	9	9	10	10	11	11
TB cases notified	7,220	8,117	7,638	7,472	7,251	7,065	6,784
Confirmed MDR-TB cases†	35	-	102	79	78	90	76
% of TB cases that is MDR	0.48	-	1.34	1.06	1.08	1.27	1.12
Tanzania
Population in million	39	40	41	42	44	45	46
TB cases notified	61,022	59,282	59,371	60,490	71,643	63,453	61,148
Confirmed MDR-TB cases†	10	13	169	24	24	34	68
% of TB cases that is MDR	0.02	0.02	0.28	0.04	0.03	0.05	0.11
Uganda	-	-	-	-	-	-
Population in million	29	30	31	32	33	33	35
TB cases notified	41,040	40,782	40,909	42,178	41,703	45,546	49,018
Confirmed MDR-TB cases†	46	-	-	26	57	93	71
% of TB cases that is MDR	0.11	-	-	0.06	0.14	0.20	0.14

^aThese are the numbers of cases confirmed and reported by national tuberculosis (TB) programs to the World Health Organization (WHO).^20–24,49

^†Confirmed multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are those newly diagnosed with resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin.