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HIV/AIDS is still considered a pandemic disease due to its continued existence throughout the various populations in the world. How does malaria and TB figure into this dilemma?
Malaria is a mosquito borne infection causes symptoms like fever ,tiredness ,vomitting,headache.In severe cases it may cause seizure ,heamolytic anaemia .Coma & death if untreated.Where as there is symptomatic treatment and patient can be cured.
Simalar is the case with Tuberculosis which is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis causing symptoms like fever,chills, loss of appetite, night sweats,weight loss, nail clubbing at an extreme stage, which as treatment line accordingly categorised under stages. But in some cases TB patients are isolated until the infection subsides or till completing the entire treatment course, which is acceped by all and people gained knowledge regarding the disease as well
Patients are treated fully without any threat to life .
Infection occurs to those individual who are at high risk area
But this is not the scenario with HIV/AIDS, where even a healthy individual can get infection .People are aware of the mode of transmission and preventive measures and hence this problem is considered Pandemic rather than Malaria or Tuberculosis