why the story engages your attention. (500 words or less) Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola, OCT. 23, 2014 (New York Times) “Craig Spencer is selfish,” said one girl when talking about ebola. Two years ago the outbreak of ebola in West Africa put fear in many Americans. Craig Spencer is a doctor who came home from Guinea after treating patients with ebola was called, selfish. This shocked me. I was raised to have a global outlook on the world and saw this doctor as a hero. Although the
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the 70’s, not many people heard about HIV/AIDS and no one was aware of the devastating effects the infection could pose on human health .Now, in 2012 the situation is completely different HIV/AIDS epidemic has become one of the greatest threat for human health and development. The AIDS epidemic has no borders and has spread all over the world affecting people regardless of age, gender, race, location, religion or sexual orientation. The first case of AIDS was reported in 1981 in Los Angeles, California
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ADVOCACY PROJECT PROPOSAL Project Title: YouthFM AIDS Awareness Project Project Period: Three-years Target areas: Phase I: Dar Es Salaam, Coast, Tanga, Zanzibar & Morogoro. Phase II: Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma & Mbeya Total funds requested: Year-One: US Dollars -------------------- Year-Two: US Dollars ------------------- Year-Three: US Dollars ----------------- Proposal submitted to: ---------------------------------. Proposal submitted by: Tanzania Youth Aware
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AP Capstone The politics of HIV/AIDS Disease is all around us and when an epidemic hits, it’s not exactly something that everyone can ignore, however when that epidemic turns into a pandemic, many Americans often times pay less attention to the disease in our own country, and more attention to what we are doing in other countries to stop the infection from migrating further. There are currently thirty five million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS and only 1.1 million of those cases
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Middle Ages were characterized by two great plague outbreaks. The Plague of Justinian affected populations moving from Asia to Ireland. The second great plague was the great Black Death in the 14th century. The plague is said to be the most critical epidemic in mankind’s history. The plague shook the whole political, economic, social and ecclesiastical structure of Europe and it led to a death of 25 million people throughout India, China and Mediterranean. The plague was suspected to have been caused
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Debate on the Ethics of AIDS Vaccines Administration without Knowledge of Long-Term Side Effects? Debate on the Ethics of AIDS Vaccines Administration without Knowledge of Long-Term Side Effects? I. Introduction (Jessica and Chrystal) A. Why this topic is important? i. AIDS is a pandemic ii. B. Implications i. AIDS vaccine could potentially save billions of lives ii. . C. Objectives of the assignment.
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HIV Prevention: Tailoring and Coordinating Biomedical, Behavioural and Structural Strategies to Reduce New HIV Infections A UNAIDS Discussion Paper UNAIDS – JC2007 (English original, September 2010) © Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 2010. All rights reserved. Publications produced by UNAIDS can be obtained from the UNAIDS Content Management Team. Requests for permission to reproduce or translate UNAIDS publications—whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution—
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Fédération Internationale de Football Association, “The FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa is an international event with great historic importance to the African continent. It will be the first FIFA World Cup ever to be hosted in Africa since the competition began in 1934, and I am convinced that Africa is ready to welcome this momentous FIFA World Cup with open arms. I am also convinced that the host nation, South Africa, will be up to the task, not least because it has abundant potential and resources
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person walks on a street in Africa, he may hear begging sound, and people in shabby clothes may come to his eye. The phenomenon let us think of the word “poverty”. Certainly, poverty exists in different aspects in sub-Saharan Africa, and it also has many negative reasons. Firstly, poverty is resulted from epidemics which are AIDS, plague and other ills. A research points out that tens of thousands of people have HIV in that region. Furthermore, more and more people died of AIDS/HIV results in enormous
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Ebola, biological warfare against Africa? [pic] A handout picture taken and released on September 21, 2014 by the Spanish Defense Ministry shows a military medical team transferring, from Freetown airport in Sierra Leone to Spain, Roman Catholic missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo, who contracted the deadly Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:27AM GMT 12 378 130 By Abayomi Azikiwe Related Interviews: • [pic]‘US seeks militarized response to Ebola’ A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the
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