Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases (MDGs’ progress & related research from PIK)

This blog-post shows positive effects and remained concerns of one of the MDG’s eight goals, ‘Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases’ (1). This also includes research from Pamoja Imani Kenya which relate to the concerns.

MDG #6

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases

Progress

In 2011, 230,000 fewer children under age 15 were infected with HIV than in 2001.

Eight million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV at the end of 2011.
In the decade since 2000, 1.1 million deaths from malaria were averted.

Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 20 million lives between 1995 and 2011.

Concerns

2.5 million people are still newly infected each year.

Related research from PIK

Many of single mother members’ husbands and children passed away because of them affected by diseases which are healable in developed countries (eg. Asthma, diarrhea, caugh).
Some of mother members are affected by HIV/AIDs, however they have not enough finance to get accesses using hospitals and get medications.

1 United Nations, Millennium Development Goals website: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/; United Nations Development Programme website: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html