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This study is a direct hands-on epidemiological sampling of a hospital data of registered patients for tuberculosis (TB) in the Kasungu District Hospital of Malawi. The data for the year 2013 and 2014 were chosen as the latest but random sample to analyze whether the data fit in and follow the broad pattern of the country at the national level and also at the global level. The data represent convoluted results of genuine TB diagnosis and latency, but impacted by the socio-cultural mindset to obtaining health care in general. Incidences of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) run in close parallel to TB as the former precariously enhance the vulnerability from TB infection to the disease stage. Key words: Tuberculosis (TB), Malawi, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The current study has been undertaken by studying the data from the hospital registers at the Kasugu District Hospital, Malawi. The malaria cases of 2014 were chosen for the study. They typically represent disease distribution based on the ages and genders of the patients. The data suggest that the cure rates among patients under age 5 and above do not have any significant difference, contrary to the commonly anticipated outcome that the older children should have better developed immune systems and should have higher cure rates. A notable point is there are huge dichotomies between genders in terms of the reported registered cases, the cure and mortality rates. The gender differentiation in the reporting and management of malaria is understood under the contemporary socio-cultural beliefs and economic realities of the Malawian society. This analysis has been carried out from a qualitative perspective, but with an attempt to identify a pattern from a year's length of statistical data. Key words: Malaria epidemiology, malaria cases, mortality, case fatality rates.