Drug Resistance Essay

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Acquired Drug Resistance for Malaria and Tuberculosis
There are many serious health problems and diseases going on around the world right now. Several examples that we can give are: AIDS, HIVS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many treatments are medicines were used to treat all these kinds of diseases, but then, many kinds of drug resistances slowly appeared.
What is Drug Resistance?
First, we are going to talk about what does drug resistance exactly means. Drug resistance is when the effectiveness of the medicine that has been used to treat the infection is reduced. According to the WHO (World health organization), drug resistance occurs when microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change into different ways in order to render the medications that were used to cure infections that they have caused and make it ineffective. Drug resistance has been a major health problem since the 1990’s (1), because of the occurring of different kinds of drug resistance, it makes it even harder to treat all the different kinds of infections or microorganisms. Thus, because of drug resistances it makes it even harder to find new treatments to cure diseases and infections.
Introduction to Malaria and Tuberculosis
Malaria is a disease that is caused by parasites. It is transferred from one person to another by the infected female Anopheles mosquito. Malaria has been a serious health problem nowadays. WHO has provided the information that approximately 660,000 people died from malaria globally during 2010. Also, after estimating, there are 219 million cases of malaria infection in 2010 worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, being one the country that has the high rate of HIV, AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, had 90% of the people that...

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...will eat the lung tissue. Every year, less than 1.7 million people would die from tuberculosis, from this statistic, we can actually see that tuberculosis is actually a serious issue that is going around the world right now (4).
Both malaria and tuberculosis are the most common infectious disease in countries like Africa and India. Two of these infectious diseases were being treated by different kinds of medicine, but then when both of them would have drug resistance towards the first-line medicine that were used to treat them, it would cause more problems. One may wonder why would there be drug resistance if the drug is used correctly; the reason on why drug resistant may occur would be because there were inappropriate uses of antimicrobial agents(4). So then, because of the drug resistance that both of this disease contain, finding a treatment wasn't very easy.

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