MedUNAB (May 2005)

Poverty, resistance to the medicines,diagnosis, VIH-SIDA and his impact in the evolution of the tuberculosis in Mexico

  • Araceli Mariscal Méndez,
  • Claudia de Jesús Ramírez Palacios,
  • Laura González Sánchez,,
  • Roberto Zenteno Cuevas

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 37 – 42

Abstract

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With 10 million new cases and three million deaths a year,the tuberculosis (TB) is one of the illnesses infectocontagiosasmore important of the world, preceded only by the malaria andthe VIH-SIDA, for what it is supported as one of the illnessestransmissible of big worry and occupation for the systemsof health. But not always it was like that, a moment came in the historyof this illness that one believed inclusive in his eradication, withoutit impeded the appearance of new,and the conjunction of old factorsthey have helped to reposicionar to the TB as a problem of attentionimmediate for the public global health. In this work we developa brief review of four factors that are impactandodeeply in the present and future of the TB: 1) The poverty; 2)The resistance to drugs, 3) The systems of diagnosis, and 4) youraffiliation with the virus of the inmunodefi human science. So much froma global perspective as national, and we conclude with the brief one evaluation on as we are preparing ourselves to face tothe tuberculosis

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