Tuberculosis Control Program in Sistan: An Eligible Model of A Tropical Area: Environmental and Epidemiological Reasons for Tuberculosis Resistance

Tuberculosis (TB) is known as an infectious disease with high burden from a long time. Various strategies are implemented to control its spread in the world and this study is to evaluate Tuberculosis Control Program in Sistan.
For this purpose we collected data with the methods of questionnaires, checklists, interviews, documentation review and observation. Using these methods together with data collection will boost the advantages of each single method. Data analyzed by using SPSS-18 software. We considered differences as significant at the level of P Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit considered as the priorities of TCPS evaluation. Current study showed TCPS reduced delayed time between case detection and treatment initiation to less than one week. TB incidence was 96 and 107 per 100,000 of population respectively in 2011 and 2012 i.e. one year before and after TCPS implementation. It increased case detection but SPSS Kruskal Wallis test showed there was not a significant change according to TCPS implementation (P > 0.05). It didn’t have a significant change in patient destiny after implementation. From the each dollar we spend in TCPS implementation (COST), about 0.86 dollar was saved.
The reason why TCPS is not fully successful is because either the TB infected contacts were not screened or due to TCPS deviation from world health organization procedures. Current study showed from the each dollar we spend in TCPS implementation, about 0.86 dollar was saved.