The National 27 October 2015 Page 7.
Tuberculosis patients who could not afford a trip to town for
follow-up treatment have developed a condition of constant diarrhoea.
Comment: The El Nino drought will have a devastating effect on both HIV and TB
sufferers in the rural areas.
These people will be caught up in the loss of food from
drought and frost and will suffer from starvation and dehydration. Wage earners will not be working. Incomes will be disrupted,
Both HIV and TB sufferers need to take their medication
without a break. Any break will promote immunity of the virus with subsequent
death of the sufferer.
If the El Nino drought continues for 6 months, there will be
large numbers of HIV and TB sufferers who die.
Any such person able to come to town for medication should be
given enough supplies to last throughout the drought.
Extra supplies should be sent out into the rural areas. But
it seems to be a hopeless situation as sufferers will drop rapidly in health
in only a few weeks.
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