Running Head: COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE INCIDENCE AND TREATMENT OF
PEOPLE LIVING WITH AIDS, TB, AND MALARIA 1
Compare and contrast the incidence and treatment of people living with AIDS, TB, and malaria
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE INCIDENCE AND TREATMENT OF PEOPLE LIVING
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Introduction
The spread of Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria across the globe poses a major world
health challenge. The international stakeholders have recognized the impact of these three health
problems along with the threat they put on the economic development and international security
(WHO, 2014). Some of the cross-cutting issues that are currently being discussed by the
international community’s about Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria are; first, strengthening of
health systems, research and development, monitoring and evaluation and engaging the
multilateral organizations (ICMM.COM, n. d). These issues are being discussed because the
incidences of these three diseases are still high and are still on the rise a situation that calls for
interventions.
According to the World Health Organization, close to 35 million people worldwide are
living with HIV Aids; out of this, 3.2 million are children and a vast majority of the infected
people live in low and middle-income countries (Unaids.org, 2013). Moreover, 19miilion out of
the 35 million people living with aids are not aware that they have been infected by the virus.
While 24.4 million people out of 35 million are found in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kendall, 2012).
Tuberculosis is the second global health problem after HIV \ids as the greatest killer disease.
Statistics reveals that about a third of the world’s population is infected by TB; however, other
people are not aware that they have been infected.
Almost 9 million people are infected with TB every year worldwide and about 1.5
million die from the disease. Out of 1.5 million people who die of TB, 360,000 have HIV Aids
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too. About 37 million lives were saved through treatment from the year 2000 to 2013. Malaria is
another world killer (Kendall, 2012). About 3.3 billion people worldwide are t risk of malaria. In
2013, the malaria cases reported worldwide were about 198 million cases out of this, 584,000
people died. About 90% of the malaria cases occur in Africa (WHO, 2014). In summary, HIV
Aids appears to increase susceptibility to Malaria while the rate of infections of tuberculosis is
higher than those of HIV and Malaria.
The methods of prevention and treatment of the three ailments are different. For
tuberculosis, there is a vaccination of young children and treatment of those who have been
infected. HIV has no vaccines to prevent it, but there are calls for abstinence from sexual acts as
one effective way of preventing the diseases (Kendall, 2012). Treatment of HIV is done by Anti-
Retro-Viral (ARV) therapy which is actually not a treatment to cure the disease but to counter its
strength among the infected. There is no malaria vaccine yet although a lot of researches are
being done and there is hope to find one. Malaria is curable by a number of antibiotics (WHO,
2014). However, it can be prevented by lifestyle actions such as sleeping under mosquitoes nets,
clearing bushes around the residence And draining stagnant water which acts as breeding
grounds for mosquitoes.
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References
ICMM.COM. (n.d). Good Practice Guidance on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Retrieved from
https://www.icmm.com/document/314
Kendall, A. (2012). The Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Retrieved
from
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41802.pdf
Unaids.org. (2013). Global report UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013. Retrieved
from
http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_Global_Report_2013_en
_1.pdf
WHO. (2014). Global Tuberculosis Report 2014. Retrieved from
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/gtbr14_main_text.pdf
