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### Viewing cable 08HELSINKI83, FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN FINLAND

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08HELSINKI83 | 2008-02-29 12:12 | 2011-04-24 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy Helsinki

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    FM AMEMBASSY HELSINKI
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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HELSINKI 000083

    SIPDIS

    STATE FOR EUR/CARC, EUR/PGI/DTESSLER AND
    OES/IHB/ALAURIZEN
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: TBIO WHO XG FI
    SUBJECT: FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN FINLAND

    REF: STATE 6989

    ¶1. Per reftel request, Post contacted Ministry of Social
    Affairs and Health's Ministerial Counselor Anni
    Virolainen-Julkunen and Finnish Lung Health Association's
    Medical Adviser Arvid Nyberg to gain information on the
    status of implementation in Finland of the Berlin
    Declaration on Tuberculosis. The assessment is contained
    in the following paragraphs.

    ¶2. Finland has a long history of Tuberculosis (TB)
    diagnostics, treatment and monitoring. Due to determined
    and persistent efforts TB has dropped significantly in
    Finland in the last 40 years and the rate of the spread
    of infection between population groups when it does occur
    is very low. According to the World Health Organization
    (WHO), the TB incidence rate was six per 100,000 (339
    cases) in 2005, only 3 percent of the level prevailing in
    the early 1960s (TB incidence 172/100,000). The positive
    trend has continued: in 2006, 295 new TB cases were
    reported and in 2007 the number of new cases was 266,
    according to the national TB expert organization, the
    National Public Health Institute (KTL). Finland differs
    from the other Nordic countries in that the majority of
    TB cases are detected in people aged 65 and older (who
    contracted TB infection in their youth) and only a
    smaller proportion (10-20%) of cases are detected in
    immigrants. Childhood TB is very rare in Finland, with
    four to ten cases registered in children in the whole
    country. As a result of Finland meeting the International
    Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IATLD)
    criteria for discontinuing universal Bacille Calmette-
    Gurin (BCG) vaccination programs and following an
    increase of BCG vaccination complications, Finland halted
    mass BCG vaccination of newborns in September 2006. A new
    KTL supervised BCG vaccination program was introduced and
    Finland moved to target risk groups instead (immigrants
    from high TB risk countries).

    New TB control program

    ¶3. To enhance awareness and knowledge of TB and to
    support the change to the new BCG vaccination program,
    Finnish Lung Health Association (Filha)in cooperation
    with KTL and supported by the Ministry for Social Affairs
    and Health (MoSAH), drafted a new Tuberculosis Control
    Program for Finland, which was released in August 2006,
    and will be updated by 2012. The goal of the program is
    early detection, efficient and successful treatment in 80
    percent of those with infectious pulmonary TB, efficient
    prevention of new infections, reduction in the risk of
    contracting TB and improved knowledge and skills of
    Finland's health care staff. The implementation of the
    new TB control Program addresses commitments taken by the
    Berlin Declaration signatories.

    ¶4. Compared with previous practices, the most significant
    changes in the new TB Control Program are specific
    measures aimed at risk groups, more efficient prevention
    of TB transmission in institutions, the appointment of a
    national expert group, specific guidelines for hospital
    districts, more effective supervision of treatment and
    co-ordination of monitoring, targeting BCG vaccinations
    at risk groups, and increasing training and research. All
    hospital districts in Finland have appointed persons
    responsible for regional TB know-how and they were tasked
    to draw up hospital district specific guidelines by the
    end of 2007.

    ¶5. To address the extremely-drug resistant (XDR)-TB
    challenge, all hospital personnel are instructed on how
    to handle the XDR-TB disease, and incubation units have
    already been set up in some hospitals to handle XDR
    patients. Two national TB Expert Groups have been
    established to monitor and support the implementation of
    the National Tuberculosis program. The National TB
    Prevention expert group, headed by KTL Research Professor
    Petri Ruutu, which meets 2-3 times a year, is presently
    drafting a TB treatment outcome monitoring system for
    Finland to be released in 2008. The National TB Treatment
    expert group, headed by Specialist in Respiratory
    Medicine at Turku University Hospital Tuula Vasankari,
    acts as the national expert body to be consulted in
    problematic TB, multi-drug resistant (MDR)/XDR cases.
    This group meets as needed, but at least 3-4 times a
    year. The possibility that MDR-TB and XDR-TB may spread
    to Finland from neighboring countries has been a cause of
    concern, although one which has so far not been realized.
    There have been a few separate MDR-TB cases (2-5 per
    year) but no outbreaks detected. KTL anticipates
    Individual XDR cases as opposed to a widespread outbreak.

    HELSINKI 00000083  002 OF 002

    National TB Expert Organizations

    ¶6. KTL's Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
    and Control (INFE), the national coordinator for the EU
    monitoring network of infectious diseases (EuroTB), works
    in close collaboration with the European Center for
    Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to gather
    information about the occurrence of infectious diseases,
    epidemics and suspected epidemics, as well as the related
    risk factors, and provide instructions for municipal
    authorities to obtain and manage epidemic information
    and, when necessary, assist them in these matters. In
    addition to applied epidemiological research, INFE's HIV
    laboratory and viral vaccine laboratory conduct basic
    research in the field of microbiology and cell biology,
    and is in charge of the quality control of laboratories
    specializing in clinical diagnostic microbiology.

    ¶7. INFE's weekly updated and publicly available
    Infectious Diseases Register provides detailed statistics
    about infectious diseases, including TB, in Finland.
    Doctors are obliged to report on infectious diseases (TB,
    diphtheria, hepatitis, malaria, HIV, poliomyelitis,
    cholera and rabies), and microbiological laboratories
    report any occurrence of infectious diseases and related
    observations. As part of an effort to improve the fight
    against TB, and meet the Berlin declaration commitments,
    the TB treatment outcome also must be submitted to INFE's
    Infectious Disease Register, starting January 1, 2008.

    ¶8. Finnish Lung Health Association (Filha - former
    Finnish Anti-Tuberculosis Association) implements in
    Finland the new National Tuberculosis Control Program
    together with MoSAH and KTL, by working nationally and
    internationally to promote public health in the field of
    TB and lung diseases. Filha's main task is to enhance
    prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of these
    diseases, by acting as a collaborative body of experts in
    designing and implementing national disease control
    programs, providing consulting, training and information
    for health care personnel in Finland, Russia and Estonia,
    collaborating with the public and private sectors in its
    activities, promoting international collaboration in lung
    diseases and expert exchange, supporting the battle
    against TB in Russia and high incidence countries in
    collaboration with Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
    Ministry of Justice, and supporting medical research in
    the field of lung diseases. Filha is the WHO
    Collaborating Centre for Prevention, Control and
    Treatment of TB, partner in the "Stop TB" strategy, and
    member of the International Union Against Tuberculosis
    and Lung Diseases (IUATLD), and the Tuberculosis
    Surveillance Unit (TSRU).

    ¶9. Finland is an active partner in the international
    effort to combat TB. Each year Finland funds numerous
    joint projects in St Petersburg, the Leningrad region,
    the Karelian Republic and Murmansk (Filha's Karelia
    Republic TB Project 2000-2010, Murmansk Region TB Project
    1997-2007, and St Petersburg TB Project 2002-2008 etc).
    The main issues of cooperation are the eradication of
    contagious diseases such as TB and HIV. Finland also
    supports WHO's projects in Russia on TB and HIV.

    WARE

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