For this paper, I have chosen the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and their work in sub-Saharan Africa. Research for this paper was a mixed bag of results. The web had plenty of articles that were reports on how donations were gathered, and “feel-good” public relations stories. It a substantial amount of digging to finally get the main link – CHAI must work with an African countries’ local Ministry of Health. Without that partnership, all the knowledge and experience the CHAI has had building successful health care models are squandered.
For my resources, I contacted the Ebling Library, the Memorial Library via phone and they sent links that gave me a good start. My local Charleston, SC public library was also effective, providing books like Giving by Bill Clinton. The textbook for this course gave useful overviews, too. The most success came from online data bases, although one librarian suggested I call the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington D.C. which I did. I was told I’d get an email from the embassy, but didn’t.
I also called the CHAI headquarters in Boston four times, left three voice mails, and even enlisted my former record company president Jason Flom (who knows Bill Clinton personally) to get some informational traction! No calls or emails back from Boston (or the former president) for over a month and that fascinated me. I’d assumed that the CHAI would love to talk about their work. After an email that politely pointed me to their website, I dug around the CHAI database and used their .pdfs as a source. Finally, on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 I got a phone call from Sean Riley of CHAI, apologizing for the delay. He was apologetic and helpful. I’ve used his input here.
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...e to contribute solutions to a critical problem like HIV/AIDS in a different, distant region. Being a crisis based NGO, CHAI has become an effective global actor by refining techniques for improvement, proving their efficacy and efficiency, and then sharing them with the host countries. By involving their power as a buyer for pharmaceuticals CHAI positively influence the local economies and reduce infection rates. By working with the MOH in the region of choice, CHAI are able to use technology to clear the path of most resistance: closing the treatment information gap between the rural and urban areas. By reducing the rate of HIV/AIDS infection and increasing lifespans, stigmas begin to fade. If it is drug cost reduction, data analysis, helping to remove stigmas or shrinking the digital divide, CHAI’s collaborative footprint in their chosen region is undeniable.
Both the Clinton and Obama administrations expended considerable effort during their first term attempting to persuade Congress to pass major legislation which would reform the American Healthcare system. Both efforts were met with considerable public opposition. And yet, while the Clinton effort ultimately proved fruitless, Obama’s endeavor let to the passage of the Affordable Care Act. What can account for these differing outcomes? The history of the Clinton and Obama health care reform proposals indicates both the importance of political capital, and the limits of executive control over the development of legislation. The Affordable Care Act passed because Obama entered the Presidency with a larger degree of political support than President Clinton had, and more importantly, because he adopted a more successful
This paper will reflect on Bono's abilities to aid underdeveloped nations with debt cancellation and AIDS, for organizations such as Drop the Debt, which erased $100 billion in Third World debt, and DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), which not only assists with debt relief, but also helps with the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Bono is on of the co-founders of DATA, along with Bobby Shriver in 2000. Also, Bono is their main ambassador and their chief spokesperson.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 2006. Working with Botswana to Confront Its Devastating AIDS Crisis. Seattle, WA: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved July 9, 2016, from https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/achap.pdf.
adults. The combined income of the household amounts to an average net pay of $84,431 a year
In this article it tells about the countries geographical location, their political, economic and social lives. It also states about governmental structure from 1923 up to now. In this article there is brief paragraph which states about Ethiopians food, language, identity, marriage, religion and other things about Ethiopia.
In conclusion, the ultimate significance to this type of work is to improve the quality of healthcare in these extremely impoverished nations. This argument is represented in Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right”, and Darshark Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” The idea that universal healthcare is a human right is argued against in Michael F. Cannon’s “A “Right” to health care?” Cannon claims that it would not work, and fills the holes that the other authors leave in their arguments. All of these articles share the same ultimate goal, and that is to provide every individual with adequate health care, and to not let so many people die from things that could easily have been prevented or treated.
Former President Bill Clinton introduced a Health Security Proposal in 1993, which was his attempt for a fundamental reform of the American healthcare system (Longest, 2010). In January of 1993, Clinton announced that he would be putting together a team of experts to review the issue of health care cost and develop a plan to propose to congress (Bok, 1998). On September 22, 1993, Clinton then made a speech to Congress announcing this new health plan (Bok, 1993). In his speech, Clinton urged law makers to “Fix a health care system that is badly broken, giving every American health security-health care that is always there, health care that can never be taken away” (Bok, 1993). He also mentioned in his speech that health care was uncertain and too expensive, too wasteful and too bureaucratic- “It has too much fraud and too much greed” (Rample, 2009).
For this paper, the non-governmental organization I chose to represent was Partners in Health. Partners in Health was started in 1987 in Boston ("Our History | Partners In Health”). “Partners in Health’s mission is to provide healthcare options to people in need. Partners in Health is building long-term relationships with sister organizations, to achieve two goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.” (“Our Mission | Partners In Health”).
During my numerous trips to Nigeria to visit my extended family, I saw firsthand how international health disparities can affect communities. It is often challenging to make the highest standard of care available to all groups and individuals here, and I became increasingly motivated to devote myself to the mission of reducing health disparities in African countries. People in my family, regardless of societal class, suffered from various illnesses including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and polio because of poor access to quality healthcare services. My goal is to return to underserved communities in both the United States and Nigeria after being armed with the training from the University of Michigan School of Information and the School of Public Health
Access to health care in Ethiopia has left many people without proper health care and eventual death. Millions of people living in Ethiopia die because of the lack of access to the health care system; improving the access to the healthcare system in Ethiopia can prevent many of the deaths that occur, but doing so will pose a grueling and challenging task. According to Chaya (2012), poor health coverage is of particular concern in rural Ethiopia, where access to any type of modern health institution is limited at best (p. 1). If citizen of Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin...
African governments have given in to the whim’s of international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in social and health policies, and with this, has come a shift away from former emphasis on social justice and equitable market efficiency to public health services for all now being perceived as a major threat ...
There is a foreboding and ongoing crisis facing several third world countries today. This crisis is the rising amount of famine and health ailments that affect hundreds of thousands of individuals that face malnutrition, poverty, and several other serious problems that you will find in developing countries. Countless diseases plague today’s world and the people who are most vulnerable to these diseases are also the ones that need the most help. Despite the lack of funds and limited aid available to these people, there is hope. A group by the name of Doctors Without Borders is a non-profit organization that provides free health care in Refugee camps to the great amount of need and helpless individuals that populate our world.
Ofcansky, Thomas, and LaVerle Berry. 2011. A Country Study: Ethiopia. Washington D.C.: The Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ettoc.html.
Health care access today is an issue in the United States because many people do not have the access to it or better coverage. I focused on answering the question, should everyone in the United States be provided with better access to health care? According to Maria Barry-Jester (reports on public health, food and culture for FiveThirtyEight) About 32 million people in the United States don’t have access to health care (2014). And about 101,000 people die each year due to the way healthcare is organized. This essay will view why the US should provide better health care, why it shouldn’t and why I believe it should.
HIV does not only affect the well-being of individuals, it has large impacts on households, communities and even nations as a whole. Peer discussions and personal research has also made me realize that some of the countries suffering from this HIV epidemic also rather unfortunately suffer from other infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, relative poverty and economic stagnation. Despite these setbacks, new inte...