Health Issues in Africa

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

Did you know “AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa” (Quinn, online). Twenty percent of Africa’s population has died from AIDS. Poverty is a big problem in Africa. Men have been forced to become migrant workers in urban areas. And antiretroviral treatment at this time is not available to African people. AIDS is a big problem in Africa today that is now requiring help from the world.

Policing is the first step to take place inside the criminal justice system. After arrest, the prosecutor dictates whether to take legal action against the perpetrator or to drop the case. While these cases are historically posed as using hard evidence to convict offenders, is this all that truly influences the outcome of a case? Gender, race, and class constantly are involved in influencing case’s outcomes and has created an unarguable social inequality in today’s legal system.

In Africa, music is an effective form of “edutainment” (Barz & Cohen, 2011, p.185). Barz and Cohen (2011) believes song, with its music and lyrics is the best mode to effectively educate people about the social and physical trauma of HIV/AIDS in Africa (p. 186). Africa has long since been known to be patient zero of the chronic disease known as HIV/AIDS. More importantly, as HIV/AIDS has spread through Africa, and now throughout the world, the industries affected in third world countries, such as Africa, have made situations even direr. More specifically, in South Africa, Lesotho, a mountainous country with an estimated population of 2 million, is suffering from the HIV/AIDS epidemic, “The two million Basotho living there are in the midst of an AIDS epidemic as calamitous as any seen in the region” (Gilden, 2009, p. 117).

Malaria is a very contagious parasite transmitted through mosquitoes to humans. Those at risk are individuals living in areas conducive to the breeding of mosquitoes, especially those that allow the mosquitoes to complete their growth cycle. Everyone is at risk

Malaria (also called biduoterian fever, blackwater fever, falciparum malaria, plasmodium, Quartan malaria, and tertian malaria) is one of the most infectious and most common diseases in the world. This serious, sometimes-fatal disease is caused by a parasite that is carried by a certain species of mosquito called the Anopheles. It claims more lives every year than any other transmissible disease except tuberculosis. Every year, five hundred million adults and children (around nine percent of the world’s population) contract the disease and of these, one hundred million people die. Children are more susceptible to the disease than adults, and in Africa, where ninety percent of the world’s cases occur and where eighty percent of the cases

In South Africa, AIDS is one of the top causes of death. South Africa has the biggest AIDS/HIV epidemic in the world because of violence against women, poverty, and lack of education. Given this, “Africans account for nearly 70% of those who live with HIV and are dying of AIDS” (Morgenstern, Dr. Michael).

The impact of AIDS may be felt as an immediate shock, as when a family loses a breadwinner, or in the case of a firm, an important employer leaves. However, at the national level the impact is felt as the gradual accrual of losses. The toll of HIV/AIDS on households can be very severe. Many families lose their bread winners. Many of those dying have surviving partners who are themselves infected and are in need of care. They leave behind children grieving and struggling to survive without the care of the parents. The disease strips the family assets further impoverishing the poor. In many cases, the presence of AIDS means that the household eventually dissolves, as the parents die and children are sent to relatives for care and upbringing. The gravity of the impact depends not only on the numbers infected and directly affected by the pandemic, but also on the resources available to manage the situation. This may be resources accessible at family, community or national level.

2.4 million people died of an AIDS-related illness in Africa, and since the beginning of

Malaria is a disease transmitted by parasites but mainly from female mosquitos. This disease infects the body with a parasite called Plasmodium. There are many signs and symptoms that occur and can be diagnosed by examining blood under a microscope. Malaria can be treated but not fully cured.

Nigeria has different health problems affecting the people in the country from communicable disease to infectious disease. Communicable disease like tuberculosis (TB), pertussis (whooping cough), cholera to infectious disease like diarrhea caused by either bacterial or protozoal, typhoid fever, malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, Lassa fever, meningococcal meningitis and rabies. The health problem that will be address will be a vector borne disease called Malaria. Malaria is a life threatening blood disease transmitted through a vector, a vector is an organism which aid in the transmission of disease. It is caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bite of a mosquito. There are about 174 different species of mosquitos however in Nigeria there are 17 different species belonging to three genera (Anopheles, Culex and Aedes). The Anopheles mosquito is responsible for transmitting the parasites which multiply constantly in the host’s liver before infecting and destroying the red blood cells.

Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transferred by a bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. The most deadly form of malaria is known as Plasmodium falciparum because almost all deaths from malaria are caused by strain. In addition to this, falciparum

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In the United Kingdom (UK), the Professional Conduct in Relation to Tax (PCRT) is adopted to govern the conduct of tax professionals. The PCRT is a guide jointly produced by seven-leading tax and accountancy bodies which sets out the fundamental principles and standards of behaviour that tax consultants are expected to follow.

Malaria is one of the ten most common, yet deadly diseases in the world. It is a parasitic disease spread by the bite of Anopheles mosquito, which is active between dusk and dawn. Malaria occurs in over 100 countries and territories.