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The report of the World Health Organization () 2008 2006, the most recent year for which WHO available. This new information showing a slowdown in the increase in the number of diagnoses of tuberculosis cases. From 2001 to 2005, the number of new TB cases detected has increased at an average annual rate of 6%, but only half of 3% from 2005 to 2006. For the World Health Organization (WHO), the reason for this slowdown is in some national programs that grew fast during the previous five years and who were unable to maintain the pace in 2006. Moreover, in most African countries, there has been no increase in case detection by national programmes. Other studies have also shown that many patients are treated in the private sector or by non-governmental organizations, religious or community, thus escaping detection by the public programs.