There would be a continued decline in the number of cases. a reduction in the number of treatment failures and relapses. and no need for shortcourse chemotherapy regimens all of which would result in savings of over $10 million per year. The elimination of tuberculosis control programs poses grave problems for the care of Indochinese. Cuban. and Haitian refugees with tuberculosisnearly all of whom are treated by the public tuberculosis programs. The precise effect of public programs on the annual tuberculosis case rate cannot be predicted. If the annual rate of decrease changed from 5 percent to 2.5 percent then the increased cost would be about $4.1 million in the first year. rising to $17.8 million in the fifth year.
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