In Diwanyah, as in all other Iraqi governorates, fully supervised short coarse chemotherapy is being followed for the initial intensive phase of tuberculoses treatment since (2000). Generally, relapse rate with such short coarse chemotherapy has been less than 4%. In this retrospective study, we have studied the files of (3818) of already diagnosed as positive TB cases (pulmonary and extra pulmonary) from those (1203) positive cases where found, during the last 5 years and they were supervised short course chemotherapy. Pattern of relapse was analyzed in ( 1203 ) positive cases registered cases of P.T.B over all relapses in new cases was 6.9 % , being the highest in the year ( 2004 ) where it was ( 8 %) , while the lowest in the year ( 2002 ) where it was ( 1.5 %) .
