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The side effects make some patients so ill that they stop taking their medications. In order to combat this, the hospital sets up support groups to provide support for those battling the infection and insure that patients stick to their medications. The documentary signifies that anyone can get TB, it doesn't discriminate, and it is so easily transmittable. Once Zandili was admitted to the isolation hospital, after a while of treatment the nurse and doctors discovered that she has not been responding to the treatment and she needs to be moved to another hospital. The nurse explains that the current hospital only has enough room for those responding to treatment and because she is only getting worse she cannot stay any longer.

This study involved reviewed a program to determine the effectiveness of a program to control drug sensitive TB by improving the treatment adherence of patients. The study compared the results of a patient program involving education and counseling of the patient and family members followed by Text messages and phone calls to remind them to take medications and monitor treatment and side effects. This is compared to the WHO recommended treatment of requiring the patient to make daily visits to TB outpatient centers for drug administration.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious killer worldwide. However, over 95% of TB deaths occur in developing countries (WHO). TB is found to be a curable disease when appropriate medications and treatment are taken. Using the biomedical system is not sufficient to eradicate TB because medical interventions will fail if social determinates aren’t taken into considerations. The biomedical system is a key component in diminishing TB because it allows for diagnosis and control. Social determinants of health play a huge role in shaping one’s health. Three main social determinants that acts as a barrier in curing and preventing TB are income, food insecurity and access to health care.

The Toronto Public health uses an observation-based treatment called DOT to anyone who is infected tuberculosis. Directly Observed Therapy is program that aids patient with their daily medications, assists them for medical appointments and monitors their health progress (TPH, 2015). The DOT worker is doing observation,

Little was known about treatment and prevention of the disease at that time. It was not until 1953 that the United States began collecting data and reports on the 84,304 new cases of TB. This data could be used in research. TB was recognized as a preventable deadly disease, and a common goal to eradicate TB was adopted. Over the next 32 years, the new TB cases dropped 74%. By 1985, there were only 22,201 TB cases. History notes that law makers and public health officials became complacent and thought they had found the solution for eradicating TB. Resources for TB surveillance, prevention, and treatment options were reduced, while homeless numbers increased. This changed history as from 1985 to 1992 TB rates started to increase. Data collected from demographic regions and surveillance records show TB cases rose by 20% in those seven years to equal new 26,673 cases, and the estimated number of TB cases (old and new cases together) during that time was more than 64,000 cases. This was the last recorded peek in TB history. Since 1992, there has been a decrease of 67% in all TB cases. Studies reflect this decrease from 10.5 to 3.4 per 100,000 persons. Much credit for this continued decline is attributed to state and federal aid in addition to the state and local programs aimed at fighting TB and the helping the homeless population. Continued public education, proactive surveillance,

A resolution was introduced by the Minister of Health ”Through this Framework, the federal government will focus its efforts on reducing the burden of tuberculosis within those populations by: Optimizing and enhancing current efforts to prevent and control active tuberculosis disease, facilitating the identification and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection for those at high risk of developing active tuberculosis disease, and championing collaborative action to address the underlying risk factors for tuberculosis.” (The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P Minister of Health). In 2004, total tuberculosis-related expenditures in Canada were estimated at $74 million dollars, with the average cost of treating a case of active tuberculosis being approximately $47 thousand dollars. Treatment for latent TB infection, on the other hand, is estimated to be less than $1000 per

Reflecting back upon the debates about reporting tuberculosis and upon the case of Typhoid Mary, the most important lessons we can learn are about the overall impact of disease. While technology has improved our knowledge on diseases, in some ways it has also limited our view of them. We can focus too much on the bacteriology, and not enough on the other social and political factors that affect the entire disease experience. Mary Mallon taught us that there are methods of controlling a disease that do not involve simply containing patients—patients can be integrated into society successfully if they are given the training and instruction to do so. Meanwhile debates regarding the registration of patients with tuberculosis show a developing

Coming to this point, now I realize why does the United States tremendously concern about the early detection of latent TB infection (LTBI). No wonder the United States is successful in recording a low rate of tuberculosis disease compared to other countries. Though there is still a huge controversy of BCG vaccination playing a role in false-positive PPD test, what I would like to recommend my friends and relatives is that they should do the TB blood test (IGRAs) to make sure that they aren’t infected with TB bacteria. I wish that the other developing countries like Nepal and India also have the effective TB control and prevention program like in the US. So that, not only does the United States continue to decline tuberculosis disease, but

without fear of deportation, he exhorted, "You can come out of the shadows. But they can’t, while the U.S. is experiencing the expansion of health care access with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This plan excluded about eleven million people who are in the country illegally. Nations with a lower social economic status are being greatly affected by the TB agent and do not have the resources available to people in the United States. According to World Health Organization (WHO): TB is the second greatest killer due to a single infectious agent in other nations, in 2012, 15% of the reported cases of TB resulted in death. TB is the third-leading cause of death for women ages 15-44 in low- and middle-income nations and the hardest hit by this disease are patients with compromised immune systems and elderly patients.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial infection that affects millions of people globally. It is a contagious disease that is spread through the air, and it usually affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person through droplets from the respiratory tract of those who are already infected with the disease. Some who are infected with the bacteria that causes TB often exhibit no symptoms, because their immune systems stop the bacteria from growing and multiplying. Those with compromised immune systems are more susceptible to developing the full blown disease which can cause symptoms that include coughing, spitting blood, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, and fever. Tuberculosis can be treated with a six to nine month course of a combination of antibiotics. If left untreated, TB will spread and can be fatal.

Int5ernational travelers are victims as well with this disease because they are around different kinds of people that can may not be vaccinated nor treated properly. There are vaccinations called Bacille Calmette Gurin (BCG) it is used to prevent severe forms of TB in children but not recommended here in the United States because it has limited effectiveness for preventing TB overall. Last is pregnancy there are greater risk for a woman and the baby is not treated. The effects on the baby can be fatal which can cause low birth weight and even a low immune system (CDC, 2013).CDC is working on better screenings and treatments for people that are homeless. They are also studying to learn the socio cultural, racial and health system barriers (CDC, 2013). The main goals for the Center for Disease Control are to educate and enforce treatments regarding this disease.

The entire world population one third is infected by TB. The distribution of this disease is not constancy across the globe. Approximately 80 percent of the population in many African and Asian countries test positive compare to other countries. This isn’t surprising most people who are infected with TB are living in deprived areas. This can become more easily to contract the

In the present study being knowledgeable about TB was associated with shorter patient delay. This affirms other studies that showed that gaps in knowledge on transmission, treatment, and prevention leads to diagnostic and treatment delays among people living with TB [8, 14, 25, 26]. Similarly a study done in Ethiopia, found that lack of awareness on TB contributed to late presentation of suspected TB patient in the health facility [27]. The current study revealed that majority(68.8%) of the patients had poor level of TB Knowledge and only 19% of the respondents thought that early treatment was important in the control of TB. This is despite the fact that this were patients who were already on treatment and ought to have received TB education on TB at the health facility. This implies that the TB knowledge at the community level is even poorer. The respondents had misconceptions on the cause and prevention of TB. They attributed the cause of TB to factors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, exposure to cold air, dust, hard labour and sharing utensils with TB patients. Similarly, a sizeable number (5%) of respondents thought that TB was

India, the second most populous country with over 1.31 billion people, has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, accounting for 20% of the global incidence of TB, and an even higher share of global incidence of multi–drug resistant (MDR) TB. With an estimated 2 million new cases of TB and 5, 00,000 TB-related deaths in India annually, those who got diagnosed with different forms of DR-TB were 35,385 cases but only 20,753 people started on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) treatment in 2013. The National Tuberculosis Program was launched in 1962, but suffered heavily continuing TB led mortality. Acknowledging this reality, a Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was launched by the Government of India in 1997, however even today it does not comply with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations.