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Table 1 Number of presumptive tuberculosis cases referred by community volunteers to township centres and proportion of those treated over time per region/state, Myanmar, 2011–2014

From: The contribution of a non-governmental organisation’s Community Based Tuberculosis Care Programme to case finding in Myanmar: trend over time

Region/state

Number of townships

Presumptive TB cases

n

Treated TB patients

n (%)

P value*

2011a

2012

2013

2014

2011a

2012

2013

2014

Ayeyarwaddy

26

727

4 015

2 023

1 865

270 (37)

1 560 (39)

577 (29)

522 (30)

<0.001

Bago

27

1 917

721

1 319

1 192

343 (18)

166 (23)

405 (31)

423 (36)

<0.001

Mandalay

4

671

1 112

766

854

133 (20)

188 (17)

191 (25)

179 (21)

0.049

Yangon

5

583

705

1 362

1 420

126 (22)

162 (23)

209 (15)

247 (17)

<0.001

Naypyitaw

1

19

10

18

11

5 (26)

2 (20)

3 (17)

0 (0)

0.060

Mon

10

1 167

1 079

379

932

166 (14)

178 (17)

40 (11)

85 (9)

<0.001

Kayah

2

83

118

562

206

8 (10)

25 (21)

128 (23)

58 (28)

0.001

Shan (East)

9

1 317

751

430

222

201 (15)

137 (18)

67 (16)

26 (12)

0.505

Total

84

6 484

8 511

6 859

6 702

1 252 (19)

2 418 (28)

1 620 (24)

1 540 (23)

0.051

  1. TB tuberculosis
  2. *Chi square test for linear trend for Treated TB patients
  3. aData were only available from last two quarters of 2011