Analysis of tuberculosis surveillance data in Oyo State, Nigeria, 2011-2014

The role of surveillance in tuberculosis (TB) management and control is imperative to the eradication of the disease. Training of TB focal persons, TB program officers and medical officers involved in data management will help to improve the quality of surveillance data. This case study was developed using data extracted from the Oyo state Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) database on TB from January 2011 to December 2014. The case study aims to evaluate surveillance data with the overall goal of improving data quality for TB control. The training will describe the requirements of routine surveillance as well as procedures for determining the burden of TB and the evaluation of some of the key indices for surveillance data quality. The participants must have prior knowledge of how to analyze and manage data and should be able to complete the exercises in approximately three hours.