Week 8_03/05/2016_Introduction Correction

Malaria in Vietnam, its effects on the people and what actions had been taken by the government to prevent this disease

Malaria had became become the leading cause of death in several developing country, included including Vietnam, where women, diabetic, and children are the primarily target. This mosquitoes infectious diseases had killed an overwhelming amounts of 3.4 millions people, mostly consisteds of pregnant women and children in many developing countries since 2007. Being known as one of the many communist country being control by a poor, underproduction with many restrictions government systems, Vietnam had been the most favorable target for the development of malaria over the year. Due to this fact, the knowledge that the Vietnamese people supposed to receive from the government were limited, therefore caused the ignorance of the people toward this life threatening disease.  Another factor that influenced the development of Malaria in Vietnam was the environment. Having the landscapes consisted of tropical and subtropical area, with paddy fields and rain puddles spread across the country provided a perfect habitat for the nourishment of mosquito's larva. Malaria virus, a parasitic protozoan, passed to human through mosquitoes, Anopheles female mosquitoes (CDC, 2015), once successfully infiltrate the victim’s body will shut down the immune system. To do so, the virus will tackle the T-lymphocytes, preventing them from protect the host against viruses that caused everyday sicknesses such as fever and flu, turning them into a more severe cases. This is similar to the retrovirus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which similarly, also target the host's immune system. Recently in 2010, debates about whether Malaria-HIV patient should receive the same treatment method as HIV patient had been concerned by many countries worldwide. The debate ended with a no, and later, the medicine co-trimoxazole had been practiced for many cases of Malaria-HIV (Alemayehu, 2015). It was a fortunate decision for these patient since there were no study that have, yet, confirmed the possible harmful effects resulted from the combination between the two viruses. Another major concern in preventing and curing Malaria were pregnant women did not received the full benefit coming from the Malaria preventing drug. The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a guideline, which debated whether the preventing drug used on pregnant women should continue to be practice. Ever since the releasing of the drug, the trimester period of pregnancy women had not been benefit the women as much as expected. Another reason behind the debate is the side effect the drug during the fetus development. One of the many examples are low birth weight, weakened immune systems, and maternal anemia. The drug is on the refurbishing process and will hit the market again once perfected. According to a recent research, Malaria could affect the the cerebral, and the retina of the patient, causing changes in the eyes structure and many more unknown effect (Taylor, 2006). Cerebral Malaria (CM) diagnostic should be taken serious by Malaria-positive patient. Along with that, doctors and scientists should be practicing more research about parthenogenesis and therapeutic to find the cure for this epidemiological disease. An already established method of diagnosing and preventing CM from spreading is by either direct or indirect ophthalmoscopy, according to the PMC. CM can target both adult and children, therefore precaution should be taken seriously and prevention should be available as needed. Following that cause, Malaria had been found to affect the lung of the victim, causing viral hepatitis, or chronic liver disease. Malarial Hepatitis was considered to be a rare case in many different way Malaria can affect its victim. It had not yet proven if the virus are directly responsible for the damage of the lung or there are more factors to contribute into this event. With that being said, the Vietnamese government did not seem to concern about this disease until it was too late, over millions people had died from Malaria alone since 2007 (CDC, 2015). To fix this problem, more researches on the cure for this disease should be initiate, vaccination should be more widely available to the citizen. Along with that, people knowledge toward this outrageous disease should be enlighten.