Active Tuberculosis Case Finding in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Experiences, Results, and Implications for Tuberculosis Control Programs

Table 2

Numbers and ratios of new smear-/bacteriologically positive, smear-negative pulmonary TB and extrapulmonary TB reported to NTP in a five-quarter period prior to and during the project intervention.

Population	SS+/B+ TB ()	SS− pTB ()	EPTB ()	pTB: ratio of SS+/B+ to SS−	Ratio of SS+/B+ pTB to all TB forms	SS+/B+: % change historic to intervention
EP historic	226	215	157	1.05	0.38
EP intervention	361	183	104	1.97	0.56	60
CP historic	232	103	81	2.25	0.56
CP intervention	261	132	71	1.98	0.56	12.5
FSC historic	20	56	44	0.36	0.17
FSC intervention	124	63	18	1.97	0.61	620
Haiti (2013)	9830	4732	1995	2.08	0.59
Haiti (2014)	9747	3521	1541	2.77	0.65

SS+: smear-positive; B+: bacteriologically positive (smear and Xpert MTB/RIF); and SS−: smear-negative.
pTB: pulmonary TB; EPTB: extrapulmonary TB; EP: evaluation population; CP: control population, TP: target population; and FSC: Hôpital Foyer Saint Camille.
As FSC and Canaan were the only sites participating for the entire 5 quarters, only data for the FSC BMU which includes Canaan are included for the TP.
Nationwide data for four quarters of 2013 and 2014 data are from [1].