Table 1. Outcomes of active case finding for tuberculosis in a camp for internally displaced persons and a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010–2013.
Location | Time period | Residents identified with cough ≥ 2 weeks, No. | Patients receiving sputum microscopy, No. (%) | Cases of pulmonary tuberculosis,a No. | Sputum smear-positive cases,a No. (%) | Incidence of tuberculosis/ 100 000 person-years | |
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Internally displaced persons camp | 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 | 282 | 176 (62%) | 34 | 22 (65) | 693 | |
Cité de Dieu Slum | 17 August 2011 to 16 August 2013 | 1420 | unknownb | 233 | 183 (79) | 1165 |
a Tuberculosis cases were either smear-positive, or diagnosed by a combination of symptoms and chest radiograph findings.
b It is unknown how many of the 1420 coughing patients had smear microscopy. Of the 233 patients with active TB, 212 had a sputum smear.