HIV/AIDS and TB
Just read two interesting news arcticles about HIV/AIDS and TB.
The first is about an Indian boy with AIDS who has tied to a bedpost in a medical college hospital, placed in a ward with people with highly infectious diseases. This is plain stupid because people with AIDS generally have a poor immune system. Futher more HIV/AIDS is not contigous. However they did mention that he had TB of the brain so maybe that was why. Anyway the hospital admited that it was not equiped to deal with AIDS patients and now boy is being moved to AIIMS in Delhi. I don’t understand how you can have a hospital not equiped to treat AIDS patients in a country with so many people who are HIV+. You can read more here.
There have been some cases of TB on a British warship recently. The BBC has a report about it here. I found it interesting because it shows that it’s not just in developing countries. TB is something that we can beat in the forseable future though. The WHO/UN DOTS program is a really good way of treating it. I hope it gets halved by 2015 like was promised in the MDG’s.