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Im having to do an assignment on this, and some of the facts are truely frightning e.g.
: 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout the world.
http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted education in the problem?
: 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout the world.
http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted education in the problem?
Pandemonium wrote:
> Im having to do an assignment on this, and some of the facts are
> truely frightning e.g.
>
> : 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
>
> 1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
>
> As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should
> never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout
> the world.
>
> http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
>
> But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted
> education in the problem?
I don't know whether this is GCSE, A Level or Uni work so I'll say how I'd go at this;
Look at the legacy of colonialism, development theory in post world war 2, overpopulation, and NGO's. Also probably look at why the AIDS virus has spread - contraception, society, prevention, and the issue of suppling AIDS drugs to Africa - www.nepad.org is one organisation that is talking about this.
Education only goes so far, because our ideas of safe sex e.t.c are seen by many as imposing western values and cultural norms onto other societies- i.e telling them to be civilised and doing things like us - this problem is probably the heart of the AIDS problem. Then you've got the drugs thing. The best drugs are American and European, but these companies will only sell the end product to African nations and not the license to make the drugs, which would make them cheaper for Africa.
Problem is that, if Africa were not in the state it is with AIDS then there'd be no reason to let them have drug licences - which have cost companies billions an years of research - for what would be basically peanuts. But because of the problem, Western companies are made to appear the bad guys in the situation because they want to sell the drugs, and not the licenses. The issue of AIDS drugs is often wrapped up in other development initiatives - see the World Bank and IMF websites.
It's a really big topic to cover in any topic, and to do it well you're probably going to need details which cover both sides of an argument, Unless you have a really strong one sided argument that can be backed up with examples, references e.t.c.
~~Belldandy~~
> Im having to do an assignment on this, and some of the facts are
> truely frightning e.g.
>
> : 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
>
> 1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
>
> As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should
> never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout
> the world.
>
> http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
>
> But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted
> education in the problem?
I don't know whether this is GCSE, A Level or Uni work so I'll say how I'd go at this;
Look at the legacy of colonialism, development theory in post world war 2, overpopulation, and NGO's. Also probably look at why the AIDS virus has spread - contraception, society, prevention, and the issue of suppling AIDS drugs to Africa - www.nepad.org is one organisation that is talking about this.
Education only goes so far, because our ideas of safe sex e.t.c are seen by many as imposing western values and cultural norms onto other societies- i.e telling them to be civilised and doing things like us - this problem is probably the heart of the AIDS problem. Then you've got the drugs thing. The best drugs are American and European, but these companies will only sell the end product to African nations and not the license to make the drugs, which would make them cheaper for Africa.
Problem is that, if Africa were not in the state it is with AIDS then there'd be no reason to let them have drug licences - which have cost companies billions an years of research - for what would be basically peanuts. But because of the problem, Western companies are made to appear the bad guys in the situation because they want to sell the drugs, and not the licenses. The issue of AIDS drugs is often wrapped up in other development initiatives - see the World Bank and IMF websites.
It's a really big topic to cover in any topic, and to do it well you're probably going to need details which cover both sides of an argument, Unless you have a really strong one sided argument that can be backed up with examples, references e.t.c.
~~Belldandy~~
Im having to do an assignment on this, and some of the facts are truely frightning e.g.
: 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout the world.
http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted education in the problem?
: 1 in 3 women aged 15 to 24 in Botswana had HIV, and 1 in 7 men.
1 in 3!?!?!? Thats the odds to contract cancer ferchrisake!
As it goes on to say, for a preventable disease the levels should never have been allowed to reach such a catastrophic level throughout the world.
http://www.unicef.org/pon00/leaguetable.htm
But what can the developed world do to help apart from attempted education in the problem?