Lack of comprehensive reproductive health services, economic disempowerment and migration of husbands in search of greener pastures impact heavily on Tanzanian women as they fall victims of the dreaded HIV/AIDS pandemic. Women constitute more than half of the country’s population of over 35 million people and form the major lab our force in rural areas where 85% Tanzanians live.
But because of lack girl-child education and stigma of HIV/AIDS victims, women have been hit hard by the incurable scourge according to figures from National Aids Control Program and the World Health Organization.
In Tanzania, strengthening the national response to HIV/AIDS has now become the Major theme of self-less activism as the Fourth Phase Government Of President Jakaya Kikwete has demonstrated its commitment to curtailing the spread of HIV Infection in the country, To reduce the prevalence high rate of HIV/AIDS, President Kikwete flagged of an Awareness Campaign to know their health status and good time too, to avoid unnecessary suffering and Untimely death.
It is relevance to mention that there is no traditional cure for this problem of HIV/AIDS As some people claim because it is impossible to cure what you don’t even know its cause. HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria are three major pandemics that ravage the African population, The disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), kill six million men, women and children each year and have hit the African continent hardest with close to 70% of all AIDS, In addition about 60% of malaria cases world wide and more than 80% of malaria death which occur in sub Sahara Africa.
Health experts say AIDS is a social disease as well as viral disease and that “if we don’t address the underpinning issues, we will never get to where we need to be” This means that Tanzania needs to do so much more than it is doing right now to prevent new HIV infection posing a threat to college students and to young men and women across the nation. HIV/AIDS the health experts contend, is an epidemic which could be effectively tackled through Proper information, a role which has effectively been done by the Tanzanian media towards awareness creation, Tanzania journalists have played a significant role in galvanizing the media to mitigating the AIDS Epidemic after being equipped with basic facts about the disease.
The government and other ant-HIV/AIDS non-governmental organizations have considered the media as a very strong partner in the fight against the pandemic and as such, they have been conducting workshops to sharpen the skills of the journalist, The recent revelation by WHO that there is a decline in the life expectancy in Tanzania is a worries-some to the extent that while life expectancy in some other countries is increasing Our is declining Health experts have also added communicable diseases to the factors contributing to decline in life expectancy in the country. The disease include Typhoid, Diarrhoea, vector-borne diseases(malaria) viral infections Sexually-transmitted infections (HIV, Syphilis) respiratory tract infections (Tuberculosis).
Currently, high on the scale of these major causes of adult and child mortality in the country is the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In many countries of the world, HIV/AIDS represents the deadliest emergency and
The greatest social economic and health crisis of modern time, The impact of disease goes beyond the lives of infected people. It changes the community Dynamics, undermines the structure of the family and threatens the future of children. For Tanzania to meet up with the challenges of the millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015,the nation has to invest heavily is the health sector to secure her tomorrow.
Reversal of the factors, responsible for the decline in the life expectancy in the country. Population health in the country suffers levels. The most pressing perhaps is the lack of data. This might appear unrelated to health to the casual reader, but fundamentally, one cannot manage what we cannot measure.
A priority for the government must be careful review of what data is currently available and further data is needed in the health sector and how best to collect this. The data we need to collect relate to both population health and also healthcare indices.
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