Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria And Other Diseases: MDG6 Case Study

MDG6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases: MDG6 strive to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. Most of the indicators show positive trends, particularly in the case of HIV prevalence among pregnant women, and detection and provision of health care for TB patients. The latter has been achieved and the former is likely to be. This can be attributed to swift and focused action on the part of the government, particularly in the case of TB. However, the year on year growth of overall TB cases (up to 230 cases/10,000 population cf. target of 45/10,000) represents one of the worst faring indicators for Pakistan in all the MDGs. HIV/AIDS trends among vulnerable groups are also alarming. The proportion
Pakistan has increased the spending on health sector from Rs.60 billion (2007-08) to Rs.102 billion (2013-14), observed 10% per annum growth. Federal Govt. is coordinating with provincial governments, UN agencies and different donors to attain better health outcomes. In this regard, our government initiated different programmes such as National Maternal & Child Health Programme, Aids Control Programme, Primary Health Care, Lady Health Workers Programme and Cancer Treatment Programme. The main purpose of all these programmes is to provide basic health facilities to the people and improvement in the National Health Indicators as
The reasons behind poor health services at public hospitals are limited governmental funding, lack of governmental interest in launching new healthcare projects and overburdened public hospitals. Moreover in public hospitals, the doctors, supporting staff and nurses are not taking pain to attend the patient or to provide individual care to the patients, take care of cleanliness, sterilization of equipments, and lack of feedback mechanism showed a low commitment level towards their responsibilities lack of staff, inadequate sterilization, lack of proper cooling and heating system for serious patients, poor condition of wards cleanliness, problem of accommodation etc. are the contributing factors towards increasing patients disparities at public hospitals7 . Saeed and Ibrahim pointed out in their study the rejection of a this fundamental right i.e. health, to millions of poor people, as the poor majority can not afford treatment at private hospitals4 . This study aims at evaluating the patients’ difficulties in relation to staff behavior in public hospitals under the fields of “Sociology of Health and Medicine” and “Medial Social Work and Health”.
By far the rural areas of Pakistan have remained deprived of major health reforms throughout our 60 year history like as if they never fell in our geographic boundaries and it is overwhelmingly sad to know,