Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been traveling its way through Africa for many years causing the various amounts of deaths, while conditions only worsening the affect on people. While Africa being a developing country, with their lack of knowledge about the disease and the other health issues that causes it to spread faster than they can control. AIDS has taken many lives throughout Africa shortening the average lifespan and leaving the orphanages over flowing with kids that have lost their parents to this drastic disease. The disease has taken over Africa as a whole and turned it into a graveyard that just keeps growing. But as time has progressed there has been more education brought to Africa. AIDS throughout Africa has taken a tremendous …show more content…
With that it became one of the three deadliest diseases in Africa and it took a large chunk of the population of Africa. In the Sub Saharan Africa is where the disease is most commonly found (Gelletly). LeeAnne Gelletly stated that "For every one thousand infants born alive, seventy nine do not live to see their first birthday." Many concerns grow for the future generations because with many adults having AIDS and passing it down to their children shrink future generations to come. As more infected adult have kids it causes them to get the disease and die at an even younger age causing the population to decrease. There are concerns that soon the population will get extremely low. When people went to visit the clinic when they were not feeling well or needed to get a vaccination the doctors were not aware how important sanitation was. Many of the doctors did not clean the needles well which had also helped spread the disease (classroom notes). Since there were very few clinics there would be very long lines this would cause you to wait in line the entire day.This caused many people not to get vaccinations or go to a doctor because they had to keep providing for their families. This made very rare for people to go to the clinic (classroom notes). Waiting in those …show more content…
Such as AIDS, it mostly target kids because they are small and they have weaker immune system mostly due to the lack of poverty and sanitation. The government has put together $2.6 million to look into the disease when cases of infants dying from a known us. They went to see how it was being spread and where it was coming from (Cooper). There have been many different organizations built to help the people in desperate medical care. There are charities such as the red cross that has had camps set in Africa to help and volunteer. From the article At Issue: AIDS in Africa said that a major Pro?Con question that comes into play is “ Should testing and prevention be emphasized over treatment in combating the AIDS pandemic in Africa?” When hearing this question our attention goes to the children and adults at serious risk. How much would it benefit them or should we go on to further research about the disease and what there is to do to decrease the growth of the disease. Which also grows to the concern with the death toll getting larger and having the current generation shrink. This makes the next generation at risk. The tragic death toll minimizes the future generations and the availability of workers to keep the system running (Gelletly). There are growing concerns that this will make their economy fall and be in a worse position than they already are. The disease has a tragic toll on future generations by diminishing the
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that challenges to battling some of these diseases is, “The limited access to health care, the lack of perception about risk and inadequate knowledge about diseases and its prevention have contributed to the high magnitude of the epidemic (2005, para
What would you say if I asked you to tell me what you think is causing the death of so many people in the horn of Africa? AIDS? Starvation? War? Would it surprise you if I told you that it all boils down to the women of Africa? Kofi Annan attempts to do just this in his essay “In Africa, Aids Has a Woman's Face.” Annan uses his work to tell us that women make up the “economic foundation of rural Africa” and the greatest way for Africa to thrive is through the women of Africa's freedom, power, and knowledge.
According to World Health Organization, the statics show that: - The world needs 17 million more health workers, especially in Africa and South East Asia. - African Region bore the highest burden with almost two thirds of the global maternal deaths in 2015 - In Sub-Saharn Africa, 1 child in 12 dies before his or her 5th birthday - Teenage girls, sex workers and intravenous drug users are mong those left behind by the global HIV response - TB occurs with 9.6 million new cases in 2014 - In 2014, at least 1.7 billion people needed interventions against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (“Global Health Observatory data”, n.d.) B. A quote of Miss Emmeline Stuart, published in the article in
The spread of aids threatens our population daily. Lives lost to it number over 12 million, including 2 mil...
AIDS is slowly becoming the number one killer across the globe. Throughout numerous small countries, AIDS has destroyed lives, taken away mothers, and has left hopeless children as orphans. The problem remains that funding for the diseases’ medical research is limited to none. In the country Brazil, HIV/AIDS has been compared to the bubonic plague, one of the oldest yet, most deadly diseases to spread rapidly across Europe (Fiedler 524). Due to this issue, Brazil’s government has promised that everyone who has been diagnosed with either HIV or AIDS will receive free treatment; however, this treatment does not include help in purchasing HIV medications, that “carry astronomical price tags” (Fiedler 525). Generic drug companies have been able to produce effective HIV medications that are not as costly if compared to the prices given by the huge pharmaceutical companies. In contrast, the U.S. government has now intervened with these generic companies hindering them from making HIV medications, which may not be as efficient if made by the pharmaceutical companies. Not only are these drug companies losing thousands of dollars against generic drug companies, but also tremendous profit that is demanded for marketing these expensive drugs as well. “How many people must die without treatment until the companies are willing to lower their prices, or to surrender their patients so generic makers can enter market? (Fiedler 525).” With this question in mind, what ways can we eliminate the HIV/AIDS epidemic across the world? With research, education, testing, and funding we can prevent the spread of HIV to others and hopefully find a cure.
The government played a major part in the AIDS situation. The government’s blood banks did not wish to check blood with a test developed by the CDC because it was not “cost-efficient.” The government also neglected the CDC of large sums of money needed in the pursuit of a cure or vaccine in the disease and thought more of dollar signs that the lives of people.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS weakens the immune system hampering the body’s defense mechanisms. AIDS is known to be a deadly disease, especially if it is not treated in a timely manner. AIDS and HIV is an epidemic that is increasing among the African American population with roots tracing back to Africa, AIDS and HIV needs greater exposure and more awareness within the African American community and in the homosexual community.
Child mortality is an ongoing global health issue that impacts the developing Global South at a higher rate than the Global North. The overall global rate of child mortality has decreased over the last 50 years yet rates in Sub-Saharan Africa have experienced little change and one in four countries within Sub-Saharan have seen an increased, showing the poorest progress and slowest decline globally (Mogford 2004 p. 94). Sub-Saharan Africa continues to have great obstacles in decreasing child mortality. One of the main causes for high child mortality is the effect HIV and AIDS has on the region. Child mortality caused by HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa would dramatically improve with better education, lowering poverty and with funding and medical accessibility.
with HIV / AIDS are also the poorest. HIV / AIDS is now considered to
There are many contagious diseases you can get in Africa. HIV/AIDS is very common in Africa, and it causes thousands of deaths per year. In 2012 the conducted a study that showed the deaths per 100,000 people per year. 122 people died from HIV/AIDS in 2012. In the same study they found that 68 people died from diarrhoeal diseases in the same group of 100,000 people. In the whole study 407 people died in total of 10 diseases.
Southern Africa has an extremely high prevalence of people living with HIV and this had led many international organizations to work on mitigating the epidemic. The governments of countries in Southern Africa are not able to combat the HIV epidemic alone because they do not have the resources. One reason for this is corruption within the health care system. Many times funding is used to help wealthier citizens, while the average citizen is left with minimal resources and limited access to care. Another political issues that has been detrimental to the HIV epidemic is when governmental procedure is slow and inhibits positive change being enacted through drawn out legal
The AIDS virus is the most common disease, and with no cure, an infected person will die. It is estimated that 90 to 95 percent of AIDS infections occur in developing countries where the world’s worst living conditions exist.
Botswana has disturbing statistics related to AIDS, when compared to those of a developed nation like Australia. Life expectancy is 40 in Botswana, compared to 80 in Australia. This difference is mainly due to AIDS. Without AIDS in Botswana, the life expectancy would be about 64. In having such a low life expectancy, Botswana has had to deal with many problems. Workers are being taken in their prime, and many children are left orphaned without a primary caregiver. This means that less work will be done, and it will be done less efficiently. The life expectancy is surprisingly low due to the high number of people with AIDS. Botswana has an extremely high percentage of the population living with AIDS. 18% of the people are HIV positive, while only .0007% of Australians are. Much of the population is dying as well. The annual deaths from AIDS are around 24,000 per month in Botswana, compared to a mere 100 per month in Australia. This means that Botswana loses 288,000 people per year, which is almost the same as the number of people infected. HIV positive citizens are dying very quickly. The birthrate is high, yet one out of every eight infants are born HIV positive. With the death rate so high, and still increasing, it is predicted that Botswana is going to experience a negative growth rate in upcoming years. The growth rate now is .76 while developed nations is more like 1.02. Drastic measures need to be taken to control the AIDS epidemic in Botswana, before the country is wiped out completely.
Preventing diseases is every countries’ responsibility, whether they are poor or rich. Poor countries lack the knowledge and the money to gain, and expand medical resources. Therefore, many people are not been able to be cured. For wealthy countries, diseases are mutating at incredible speeds. Patients are dying because drug companies do not have enough data to produce vaccines to cure patients. When developed countries help poor countries to cure their people, the developed countries could help underdeveloped countries. Since developed countries can provide greater medical resources to poor countries, people living in the poor countries could be cured. As for the developed countries, they can collect samples from the patients so that the drug companies can produce new vaccines for new diseases. When trying to cure diseases, developed countries and poor countries would have mu...
The emergence of HIV/AIDS is viewed globally as one of the most serious health and developmental challenges our society faces today. Being a lentivirus, HIV slowly replicates over time, attacking and wearing down the human immune system subsequently leading to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) at which point the affected individual is exposed to life threatening illnesses and eventual death. Despite the fact that a few instances of this disease have been accounted for in all parts of the world, a high rate of the aforementioned living with HIV are situated in either low or medium wage procuring nations. The Sub-Saharan region Africa is recognized as the geographic region most afflicted by the pandemic. In previous years, people living with HIV or at risk of getting infected did not have enough access to prevention, care and treatment neither were they properly sensitized about the disease. These days, awareness and accessibility to all the mentioned (preventive methods, care etc.) has risen dramatically due to several global responses to the epidemic. An estimated half of newly infected people are among those under age 25(The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic). It hits hard as it has no visible symptoms and can go a long time without being diagnosed until one is tested or before it is too late to manage.