The document discusses several health challenges facing Africa, including AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, and diabetes. It notes the development of organizations like the Global Fund to help address diseases like AIDS and malaria. It also discusses the relationships between diseases, underdevelopment, poverty, hunger, and lack of access to clean water and healthcare. The document further examines issues of human rights, gender, women's roles and empowerment, and children's rights on the continent.

1. Final Class Meeting Return final paper Health Gender Children Human Rights Your unanswered discussion questions Upload Take home final exam Class Evaluations 06/04/09

2. 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

3. Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria 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?

4. Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Remaining Discussion Questions Remaining Discussion Questions answered by Cecil Rhodes 06/04/09