Turkana is one of the top 10 high burden counties for TB in Kenya, with a TB case notification rate above 164 per 100,000
TB is a common disease among Turkana community and slum dwellers. As a result, their immune systems are very weak and susceptible to infectious diseases. An additional risk factor is the living situation of the people in the informal settlements: They usually live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated accommodation. Here, diseases such as tuberculosis are easy to spread from one person to the next through droplet infection.
Although tuberculosis is subject to compulsory registration by name, knowledge about this disease is very high here and at the same time the chance of being stigmatized as a tuberculosis patient by the community is very high. For this reason, more than 47% of tuberculosis cases, and even more than 15% in children, are actually reported
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