Prevalance of tuberculosis in District Dir Upper, Pakistan

Abstract

The present study was carried out to invistigate the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in sub division
Sheringal, Dir proper, Barawal and Wari District Dir Upper in Khyber Pakhtunkwa (KP) province,
Pakistan from (January 2013 to December 2013). During this survey I collect data from four tehsils of
District Dir Upper. A total of laboratory reports of 380 patients were collected from four differents
tehsils, in which 98 (25.78%) were found positive and 282 (74.21%) were found negative tuberculosis
patients. The higher incidence of tuberculosis was showed in tehsil sheringal 31 (28.18%). And lowest
rate of tuberculosis was found in tehsil wari 18 (22.5%). And in Gender wise prevalence out of 98
positive cases 37 (22.42%) were male and 67 (28.37%) were female. This shows that the rate of
tuberculosis is higher in female as compare to male. The higher infection of tuberculosis were found in
the people of middle age from 13-30 (70.58%) and lowest infection are found in the children and adult
about (8.57%). In month wise the higher prevalence was recorded in the month of March (46.15%) while
the lowest prevalence was found in the month of April showing (16.21%).