The Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, has charged the Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Ambassadors in Anambra State to create a forum to tackle challenges making its control difficult.

Professor Osotimehin who gave the charge this in Awka at the opening of the second Anambra Stop Tuberculosis week noted that the estimated annual tuberculosis cases reported from the State was worrisome.

According to him, tuberculosis is a serious public health problem, with Nigeria ranking fourth among the twenty-two high burden tuberculosis countries in the world and first in Africa.

He was optimistic, however, that if new approaches were adopted, the national target to detect seventy per cent of estimated infectious cases and treat eighty-five per cent by twenty-fifteen could be met.

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