Table 4. A 5-year average (mean ± SD) notification of TB indicators by levels of socio-economic deprivation from 2009 to 2013.
TB control indicators | Quintile 1 (most deprived) | Quintile 3 | Quintile 4 | Quintile 5 (least deprived) | ANOVA P-value |
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TB death rate | 12.64 ± 0.99 | 8.18 ± 0.25 | 8.61 ± 0.74 | 7.32 ± 0.45 | <0.0001 |
HIV-associated TB death rate | 27.19 ± 5.39 | 26.08 ± 5.31 | 24.30 ± 4.09 | 13.76 ± 4.37 | 0.049 |
New TB smear positive cases | 2602 ± 1074 | 1995 ± 406 | 2855 ± 425 | 4367 ± 144 | 0.001 |
TB rate among the household contacts of the Index TB cases | 4.48 ± 0.92 | 3.16 ± 0.37 | 3.12 ± 0.29 | 2.39 ± 0.10 | <0.0001 |
TB defaulter rate | 6.98 ± 1.24 | 8.85 ± 0.33 | 11.53 ± 1.44 | 1.25 ± 0.56 | <0.0001 |
TB treatment failure rate | 1.06 ± 0.45 | 0.97 ± 0.10 | 1.90 ± 0.17 | 2.15 ± 0.28 | <0.0001 |
TB and HIV co-infection rate | 79.45 ± 11.8 | 75.40 ± 16.83 | 76.22 ± 14.9 | 71.05 ± 11.73 | 0.57 |
TB Rifampicin resistance rate | 5.88 ± 1.91 | 0.89 ± 0.39 | 1.22 ± 2.53 | 0.35 ± 5.18 | 0.71 |