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The Uganda National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, 2014-2015 Survey Report
Global Health Security Capacities
Communicable Diseases
Description
Uganda faces a high burden of tuberculosis (TB), but accurate estimates of the burden of TB in the country were unavailable. A national prevalence survey was therefore conducted from October 2014 to July 2015 to achieve the primary objective of estimating the prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB (PTB) in the population aged >15 years in Uganda. In addition, the survey sought to estimate��