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Discuss the following questions.

You must include references to support your discussion (written within the past 5 years) at the end of your initial post. DO NOT use blogs as references. An initial post with in-text and end of text references in APA format.

1.) As you review the CDC report on TB in the US, how may current immigration regulations impact our healthcare system?

https://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/default.htm

2.) The elder population in the US is seeing an increase in TB rates but at times is being misdiagnosed. What is causing this problem? How can we assist in protecting this group of people?

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/33/7/1034/429393


3.) Were you familiar with PrEP as preventative for HIV/AIDS? Do you see this as an effective modality to combat the AIDS epidemic? Why or why not?

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-global-hivaids-epidemic/


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Q1:
In the early 20th century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death in the United States.
However, concerted public health interventions beginning in the mid-1950s caused a solid
decline in cases, until a resurgence in the early 1990s. The resurgence in tuberculosis cases was
associated with several factors among them being the advent of the HIV epidemic, a rise in
immigration from countries with high tuberculosis rates, as well as a fall in funding for
tuberculosis control programs (Palmer, Allen, & Walton, 2017). Immigration can thus be a direct
cause for increased rates of tuberculosis infection across the country. Further, the healthcare
system may suffer an increased strain in providing tuberculosis care for immigrant patients.
According to the CDC report in the US, that a sizeable 13% of TB cases reported in the US, with
genotype data, are as a result of recent transmissions. While the 2017 TB rates were the lowest
recorded in the United States History, they are significant in that many of the states with above
national average rates of infection are border states, which are naturally predisposed to receive
immigra...


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