HIV & TB

Everyday 12,000 people contract HIV worldwide and 500 people every hour. In 2006, 2.9 million people died from AIDS, 380,000 of them were under the age of 15; thus one child dying per minute. Fifteen million (15 million) around the world have been orphaned by AIDS, losing one or both parents to the disease.

According to research, more than 60% (24.7 million) of all people living with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2006 an estimated 2.8 million people in the Sub-Sahara Africa became newly infected. An estimated 2.1 million adults and children died of AIDS.

TB is the leading cause of death among HIV infected people, WHO estimates that TB accounts for up to a third of AIDS deaths worldwide. When someone is infected with TB, the likelihood of them becoming sick with the disease is increased many times if they are also HIV positive. TB is very contagious; people with TB in their lungs can pass the bacteria onto anyone they come into close contact with. When a person with active TB coughs, sneezes or spits, people nearby may breathe in the TB bacteria and become infected. Left untreated, each person with active TB will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year.

It is the aim of GLOPEC to

• conduct massive health screening exercise at various villages in our catchments areas:
  This can properly be done through our able doctors, medical laboratory scientist as well as other health staff to ascertain the number of people n the various villages who are infected with the HIV/AIDS and TB.
  When we get them through the health screening then we can proceed in treatment as well as managing them through our 7 year pilot health plan before 2015.
• advise the public concerning these diseases.
• eradicate such diseases from the society by dire of hard work from our staff especially the medical staff.