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This document discusses the impact of AIDS in several African countries and Chinese immigration to Canada. It provides details on: - AIDS first being detected in the Congo in 1959 and how it has since infected 65 million people in Africa, killing 25 million - The culture and lack of access to medicine in several African countries like Uganda, Botswana, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland have contributed to the spread of AIDS - How Canada was previously an easy route for Chinese immigrants to enter the US, but borders tightened after 9/11, sparking debate around reopening borders or security concerns
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- 2. Case: AIDS in Africa First case in 1959 in the Congo Hit the U.S. in the 1970’s 65 million people infected, 25 million killed Leading cause of death for African American women More than 2 million children under age of 15 are infected AIDS
- 3. From country to country… Uganda- Botswana- Zambia South Africa Zimbabwe Swaziland
- 4. Uganda- AIDS-aka “slim disease” AIDS control program Culture-acceptable for grooms family and friends to have sex with the bride
- 5. Botswana- Hit hard/disease was ignored Culture- -women have no say in sex No modern medicine only herbal No physicians
- 6. Zambia 1 in every 6 adults have AIDS Women make up 57 % Unlike most they are NOT underprivileged and uneducated Culture- can not turn down a man Prostitutes Truck drivers
- 7. South Africa- Lake of leadership- anti drugs are “poison” Protection and treatment programs are plots Condoms-immoral and the main reason for AIDS
- 8. Zimbabwe Drought, poverty, shortage of food, unemployment = AIDS not their main concern Teachers have highest rate of infection
- 9. Swaziland Highest rate in the world 42.6% of pregnant women are HIV-positive Culture- Polygamy Poverty
- 10. Crisis Communication Plans Education Communication through print, TV, radio, outside advertisements Condoms Campaigns- -Zambia- “Sex thrills, but AIDS kills.”
- 11. Case: Chinese Immigrants in Canada Canada was the easiest route into the U.S. for Chinese immigrants September 11, 2001 changed that Some people want to open the borders Opponents argue future terrorist attacks Compromise?
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- It is believed that a human in rural Cameroon was either bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering a chimp and became infected with the disease. That person then passed it on to someone else and so on passing it along the Sanaga River, a commercial waterway and then eventually made its way to the Congo and the first known human being with HIV. There is no data available to figure out how many people were infected between the first human in Cameroon and the first patient identified with the disease in the Congo. It wasn’t until the mid 1970’s that AIDS hit the U.S.
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