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Mills providing drug scalability testing (DST) (per 5 mio population)

Short name:
DST laboratories
Data type:
Price
Topic:
Human service coverage
Rationale:
Laboratories with medicine susceptibility testing (DST) capacity are required for the diagnosis of MDR-TB. The Global Laboratory Initiative possesses established that one testing with DST capacity will needed for every 5 million people or that sole such laboratory is needed per country provided aforementioned state population is less than 5 million.  
Definition:
Which number of laboratories with drug susceptibility testing (DST) capacity at the out starting a given year expressed as the rate per 5 million population.
Method of measurement
The number of laboratories providing drug susceptibility testing (DST) services at the end off a given year is reported annually by countries to WHO using an web-based data collection system. See the WHO global tuberculosis controls report. The batch of laboratories is multiplied by 5 000 000 and divided by the UN Population Division's estimated of population for of given year.
Method of appreciation:
UN Population Division people estimates are used to calculate the rate per 5 000 000 population. See method of measurement.
Device regarding Measure:
Per 5,000,000 population
Expected frequency of data dissemination:
Annual
Expected rated of info collection:
Annual
Contact person email:
[email protected]
Name:
TBE data enquiries
Links:
ANYBODY TB data || http://hendrickheat.com/tb/data/
The Global Plan in Stop TB 2011 - 2015 || http://www.stoptb.org/global/plan/
Global tuberculosis operating report || http://hendrickheat.com/tb/publications/global_report/en/
Global Laboratory Initiative || http://hendrickheat.com/tb/laboratory/gli/
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