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A crash course in changing the world.
The shocking state of affairs in Democratic Republic of Congo
The article I chose was http://www.unaids.org/en/knowledgecentre/resources/featurestories/a...
While this article was seemingly one of hope I quickly had to ask myself what was the reason to look for success? A national initiative sounded like a good thing but in the same article it pointed out facts so shocking that I had to question any claims of being able to roll out a national plan and eliminate aids for a generation.
The statistics cited were so scary that I had to try to get a handle on just what the country was trying to do and where it was at.
Lets quote from the article
"The Executive Directors stressed the need to take AIDS out of isolation and integrate it with related health interventions for the
most effective outcomes. They called the virtual elimination of
mother-to-child transmission by 2015 a concrete but achievable goal.
the world that together account for 50 per cent of the world’s maternal
deaths."
To better understand the country I think it makes sense to look at their hopes, dreams, and plans.
http://www.indexmundi.com/democratic_republic_of_the_congo/millenni...
Goes into their goals - lets look at a few to give us a better idea of how "good" the news of a national initiative is likely to be given the context of their country:
Target 11: By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
I appreciate that they have not attempted to end their living in slums as that would be too ambitious but the very fact we are dealing with 100 million (that is an amazingly high number shocking considering the size of the country) they clearly have profoundly troubling issues to deal with.
Targets 1 & 2 clearly bring home the economic problems.
Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from Hunger
When a country cannot even commit to trying to eradicate hunger over a 25 year period you know it is in serious trouble.
So my contribution to this article is to try and give a context to what is going on which makes the likelihood of success so low. If they are to move forward and be able to achieve their dreams and increase their standards of living we need to address the wide array of challenges (including diseases such as malaria) which face them. 100 million slum dwellers are a good sign that they have poverty to a very unhealthy degree.
While this article was seemingly one of hope I quickly had to ask myself what was the reason to look for success? A national initiative sounded like a good thing but in the same article it pointed out facts so shocking that I had to question any claims of being able to roll out a national plan and eliminate aids for a generation.
The statistics cited were so scary that I had to try to get a handle on just what the country was trying to do and where it was at.
Lets quote from the article
"The Executive Directors stressed the need to take AIDS out of isolation and integrate it with related health interventions for the
most effective outcomes. They called the virtual elimination of
mother-to-child transmission by 2015 a concrete but achievable goal.
Currently, more than 40,000 infants are born with HIV infection every year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Only 2 per cent of
pregnant women have access to services to prevent mother-to-child
transmission, and only 8 per cent of pregnant of women are offered HIV
testing and counselling.
the world that together account for 50 per cent of the world’s maternal
deaths."
To better understand the country I think it makes sense to look at their hopes, dreams, and plans.
http://www.indexmundi.com/democratic_republic_of_the_congo/millenni...
Goes into their goals - lets look at a few to give us a better idea of how "good" the news of a national initiative is likely to be given the context of their country:
Target 11: By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
I appreciate that they have not attempted to end their living in slums as that would be too ambitious but the very fact we are dealing with 100 million (that is an amazingly high number shocking considering the size of the country) they clearly have profoundly troubling issues to deal with.
Targets 1 & 2 clearly bring home the economic problems.
Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from Hunger
When a country cannot even commit to trying to eradicate hunger over a 25 year period you know it is in serious trouble.
So my contribution to this article is to try and give a context to what is going on which makes the likelihood of success so low. If they are to move forward and be able to achieve their dreams and increase their standards of living we need to address the wide array of challenges (including diseases such as malaria) which face them. 100 million slum dwellers are a good sign that they have poverty to a very unhealthy degree.
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