Tuberculosis data sampling of a district hospital in Malawi: An epidemiological perspective

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).