Tuberculosis Now Rivals AIDS As Leading Cause of Death Says WHO
by Julie Steenhuysen Oct. 28, 2015
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Source: Scientific American
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Summary: In 2014, about 1.1 million people died from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS out beat by 1.2 million people. Eventhough, in some cases, tuberculosis can be curable it remains to have an unpredictable number of deaths. It was reported that TB was founded in 205 countries and territories and found that 6 million new cases of TB was reported to the WHO (World Health Organization) in 2014. The key issues were funding disparities. It was found that international funding for HIV/AIDS is higher than for TB by 10 times. HIV/AIDS are more affective in poor resource countries such as Africa. On the other hand, TB is more preventable in countries like India and China. By 2015, there would be a huge gap of an amount $1.4 billion for funding TB interventions.
Reflection: While reading this article I didn't know that there was more money spend on HIV/AIDS than tuberculosis. As a matter of fact, I thought it was more of an equal amount for both diseases. But since it's doesn't seem that way then, their should be funding for both diseases since they technically deadly. Unfortunately, HIV/AIDS are more common than TB. |