HSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Onchocerciasis, Infection, Yellow Fever
17 Dec 2015
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Hiv/aids, tb, malaria, parasitic infections, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Constrains mental and physical development of infants and young children, reduce economic prospects. Communicable disease: transmitted from an animal to another animal, animal to human, human to human or human to animal, refers to both infectious parasitic diseases. Improved care seeking, disease recognition: maternal health etc. Case management (treatment) and improved caregiving: diarrheal disease etc. Case surveillance, reporting and containment: avian influenza etc. Accounts for about 36% of total deaths and about 40% of total dalys lost annually in low and middle income countries. Factors that contribute to the development of drug resistance: Inappropriate use of drugs by prescribers, dispensers, and patients. Failure of patients to take appropriate doses of drugs. Use of poor quality or counterfeit drugs that do not contain appropriate level of therapeutic ingredients. Weak health systems, with poor laboratory capacity to diagnose disease and test for drug susceptibility.
