The World Health Organization of 30 countries has been determined to have a joint burden on TB and HIV, and 22 are the high load of Saharan Africa. Photo: Mujahid Safodien / AFP / Getty Images)
In the western of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, a tuberculosis, a tuberculosis chief is not different from one of the world. Several people are sick, health workers try to find and test everyone with a bad cough and other symptoms. In order to help patients create medicinal infections, the whole treatment period is made an agreed effort to make sure to take medicine for at least six months of treatment.
The problem is that West Kenya is a High load of HIV infectionsCommunities make tuberculosis more susceptible to infections. People living with HIV 14 times more likely to be patient than non-hiv people.
Other communities The shores of Lake Victoria Lakein Copperbelt region in ZambiaSouth Africa East Cooky and The province of Enugu in NigeriaShare this sensitivity.
The World Health Organization of 30 countries has been determined to have a joint burden on TB and HIV, and 22 are the high load of Saharan Africa. South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Kenya and India have the most connections in the world.
Not like HIV TB. This is a treated disease when the TB treatment is six months long. HIV cannot be treated on the other side. However, the infection can be checked through a medicinal means. The virus attacks the immune system, strengthens other diseases, as TB, usually managed. In fact, TB is the leading cause of death for people living with HIV infection.
With foreign donors, the partners can make a change for resources for programs that find people living with HIV and provide the necessary medications. This program helps prevent HIV spread and other infections, such as more widespread infections. Similar programs help people find people with TB and provide drugs along the six-month treatment.
Currently, Trend is to break this partnership and cut foreign assistance by opening a security network from HIV and TB. These areas are extremely risk of two infectious diseases that do not respect national borders. We continue to risk the roads spreading even if they are not even.
It is a way to improve this situation, the Saharan Africa and the improvement of this situation throughout the global south. To shorten the treatment period and patients need new drugs for TB to facilitate the drugs. We only need drugs that can treat HIV instead of checking infections.
We also need vaccines to prevent both of this infection. The only available TB vaccine protects the dates and young children against 1921 against TB, but offers insecurity protection against the most common form of the disease for adolescents and adults. Although there is no vaccination to prevent HIV and the new prevention methods are determined, they need development and distribution.
This is my job as a scientist – to help develop solutions for infectious diseases that are difficult to do in the check, even the systems that apply to them have lost an important financial.
There is no disagreement that made the difference between foreign aid; No more resources needed, not less. Approximate $ 22 billion Every year is required for TB Diagnostics, treatment and prevention services by 2027. Only $ 5.7 billion in 2023. In the global southern and global north, governments need more help.
Global Financing for neglected diseases has basic research and product development Decreased by more than 20% Because it reaches the summit in 2018. Since 2023, high-income countries have provided 59% of all financing. These numbers are expected to decrease this year. It would be great to see low and medium-lived countries that solve diseases such as TB and HIV, but unfortunately, this is the beginning stages of this journey.
Today, progress against these diseases, stops on the edge of a sediment because governments are facing impossible decisions of the channel reduction resources. Financing of all these works, if the external aid of high-income countries suddenly, it is not burned as a transition.
We lost a lot of space in the Covid-19 pandemia. About 700 000 Tuberculosis death The pandemic is caused by violations. In 2023, less than half of all people infected with medications were treated in 2023. Now there is a risk of losing the ground we have since covig.
It is important that global south and global North and global continue to work together, it is important to solve these diseases that are sensitive to most society. The world will always be closed. The solution of these diseases benefits us all.
Dr. Monicah Otieno Doors is the head of non-indecent development at the Medical Research Institute.
