“The death rate from tuberculosis reached a national minimum. Thus, the mortality rate from tuberculosis for the period January - August 2019 decreased by 13.6% and amounted to 5.1 per 100 thousand people, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
He also added that over the past 10 years, the incidence of tuberculosis has decreased by almost 2 times, and mortality - by 3 times.
Earlier, Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova during a speech at an event within the framework of the UN General Assembly spoke about the country's success in the fight against tuberculosis.
Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Apt, professor of the Department of Immunology of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, head of the immunogenetics laboratory of the Central Research Institute of Medical Sciences, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with tuberculosis in Russia.