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NAME: James Brazelle

Infectious Diseases: HIV, TB
HIV- Most common routes of transmission include unprotected sex, receiving
contaminated blood products, injection of illicit drugs, and perinatal transmission from
mother to child.
TB- Among humans the droplets that are emitted when coughing during the infectious
stage can transmit the disease to others. It can cross species.
Improved interventions have resulted in longer life for many people with HIV. HIV can
progress to Stage 3 in a matter of a few years. It is now considered a chronic disease
rather than a fatal one due to improved treatment. At stage 3 the patient may
experience musculoskeletal wasting, cognitive impairment, neuropathies and possibly
rare cancers and other opportunistic infections.
TB- Most commonly affects the lungs by causing tubular inflammation. Untreated TB can
cause protracted illness and painful deterioration involving all organ and skeletal
systems until eventual death.
HIV- Flu like symptoms. Weight loss, fevers, sweats, weakness, persistent rashes or
infections, opportunistic infections, memory impairment, depression, irritability and
cognitive deterioration.
TB- Fever, weight loss, night sweats, coughing, chest pain and bloody expectorant.
Mainly social function, depression, daily habits, routines, education, management of
fatigue.
These diseases definitely highlight our humanness and need for each other in the
problems that arise from isolation. Great care must be taken by care givers to maintain
safe yet effective and compassionate interaction and treatment.