The 3 “ONES” for the “BIG” 3
The Campaign for communication to convince Leaders and development partners to unify their efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
The 3"ONES":
- One government executing authority: the Rwandan Government
- One synergic monitoring and evaluation plan for three big world pandemics
- One strategic plan for three world epidemics
The "BIG" 3:
- HIV/AIDS
- The Malaria
- The Tuberculosis
1. Introduction
The most vulnerable of the world population to the infection of the HIV/AIDS lives in the developing countries, those countries have the high mortality rate at all ages than any other on the planet due to coexistence of the two other endemic diseases.
The three diseases are equally linked to poverty and lack of access to care and treatment as the fight of AIDS cannot be solely fought. It needs multisectoral approach and poverty has to be integrated on daily basis activities.
Further all efforts regarding the promotion of prevention of further HIV infections or in favor of access to treatment is simply hindered by the presence of malaria and tuberculosis that threatens the population in the developing countries.
2. International Context
The highly risky populations to HIV/AIDS are similar to those vulnerable to malaria and tuberculosis. The latter stands at the forefront of opportunistic infections of HIV and according to, researches conducted in families hosting people living with HIV show many cases of Tuberculosis. The mortality rate of non-infected people of HIV due to ordinary pathologies like malaria and the gastroenteritis was higher than those living with HIV without shelter. This is probably due to the high rate of bacteria and parasites transmitted by the members of families that have AIDS.
The facts clearly indicate that, to raise the level of health of the poor people on the planet, it is necessary to tackle three awful pandemics, which threatens the same people, in the same places of life setting, the people who are looked after by the same medical and paramedical personnel in the same centers of care and treatment.
Much has already been done, in the fight against these epidemics, with different efforts of the same development partners.
However, it would have been impossible to reach the current level in the care and support of HIV infected people without the support of UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, the Initiative of President Bush and activities of the Clinton Foundation and a host of others.
Presently, the next step is to approach the partners for a joint action concerning their planning, and during the course of execution and later in the evaluation.
3. Objectives
3.1. Unified efforts
Objectives
To improve the universal access to the care and treatment of the communities, by unifying efforts of the international community, government and the civil society against the three large killers namely; AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Thus, proceeding is to ensure anticipated output of funds invested for each of three pandemics. Hence, prevention is fairly done.
3.2. Enforcing the endowed resources
Partners who finance the three pandemics are almost the same and have found it vital to fight them concurrently. The Rwandan Government has swiftly responded to this concern by putting in place all it takes for the welfare of the people.
For a durable action on pubic health, it is indispensable to form the agents of care on the three pathologies and reinforce their capacity to meet the population needs, by avoiding the wastage of time in successive extrications of trainings, correlated to the HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.
