11 Final Class 2008

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06/04/09

Health Challenges
Health Priorities
Preventative vs. Curative
General vs. Targeted
Elite Origins->Post-colonial growth->Post-SAP cutbacks
Who gets what where and why
Culture and Health
Healing from Indigenous knowledge
Harmful local myths
Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria
Environment and Health: Clean water

New Developments
Global fund, http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/how/
AIDS drugs more available
Simple solutions to Malaria?
Diseases combined effect often lethal
Drug resistant TB?

Hunger exacerbates AIDS, Malaria, and TB with medications with nutritional conditions
Cultural strengths and cultural weaknesses
Community networks vs. harmful cultural myths about AIDS and sex?. Natural resistance?
06/04/09

New HIV infections AIDS illness and deaths Family impoverishment Family stress/collapse Hunger School drop-out Child Vulnerability Abuse/ exploitation Trans-generational Transmission of Poverty

But what about Diaheria and Diabetes?
Diaheria
Old problem of sanitation and malnutrition
Diabetes and heart disease
Africa’s changing diet
More starch (Ugali na chipsi)
Less fresh vegetables (mboga)
Plaguing many African cities
Links to loss of Ik, but possibly genetic risks

A Nexus of Relationships or A vicious cycle
Diseases of Underdevelopment P174
A vicious cycle: Aids orphans
Nexus of relations within
Development->population change, movement, health, human rights, and environment

Discussion on Human Rights in Africa
Civil and Political Rights
Social Economic and Cultural Rights
Geography and human rights: “Who gets what where?”
Gender and rights and development
Children, Development, duties and rights
06/04/09

Gender
Women’s Double-Double work day: Double Colonialism
Gender and Agriculture
Changes in land tenure
Property, law, and travel issues
Women’s burden in AIDS
Girls’ Education at the expense of boys education
“ Watering another man’s garden”
Women’s burden concerning alcohol abuse, DV, and parallel families
Women in Development and women’s strengths
Greenbelt movement and women’s empowerment
Liberia’s first female president Ellen Sirleaf
06/04/09

Children
CRC
Duties and protection as important as freedoms
Protection from Abuse
Street Children’s rights
AIDS Orphans
Protection from Child labor
Challenges of universal primary education
Less children in school now than 20 years ago
Overcrowding
Teacher training
Language or Lugha
Going to school hungry
06/04/09

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11 Final Class 2008

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