Background:

the monitoring of tuberculosis inequalities occurrence in Camaguey municipalities is important to achieve their elimination.

Objective:

to assess the TB inequalities in Camagüey´s population.

Methods:

tuberculosis ecological study was carried out in the 13 municipalities of Camagüey. The National surveillance database was the source of information. The variables used were: number of cases, notification rates and years. The geometric average of the rates was calculated, taking the lowest as a reference to estimate the absolute and relative differences and the population attributable risk. It was calculated the proportions of cases according to municipalities and the trends in people deprived of liberty and people living with HIV in the province. Two future scenarios 2019-2020 were proposed, according the perspectives of the Cuban Tuberculosis Program: with a 20% reduction for all municipalities and a discriminated reduction of 40% for those municipalities with rates ≥ 10 per 100 000 populations and 10% in those with rates < 10, to estimate the Pearcy-Keppel index and variance between groups. It was stratified the municipalities according to the goals towards elimination.

Results:

Minas municipality was the reference, with the geometric average (0.4 per 100,000), the relative inequality was 11.5 highest in Camagüey. The population attributable risk was between 11-95%. The trend in people deprived of liberty was ascending. The second scenario showed moderate inequality, Pearcy Keppel index was 46.1% and variance between groups (1.0). The municipalities of Sierra de Cubitas and Najasa were in elimination phase.

Conclusions:

the municipal populations of Camagüey, Guaimaro, Nuevitas showed the greatest inequalities according to Minas. Differences interventions would bring better results to these territories.

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