Disease In The Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located in Central Africa, struggles daily because the government fails. The country has been in civil conflicts for nearly a decade, this however is not the main health hazard. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Congo was a popular location for slave trade, while foreign powers intruded they also exposed the area to their diseases that have remained for centuries. These diseases have developed

Over a period from 1960-1965, the first Republic of the Congo experienced a period of serious crisis. There was a terrible war for power that displayed senseless violence and the desperation to rule. There were many internal conflicts among the people. The country eventually gained independence from Belgium. For many countries this would be a time for celebration. Unfortunately for the people of the Congo this became a time to forget. Almost immediately after independence and the general elections, the country went into civil war. Major developed cities like Katanga and Kasai wanted to be independent from the Lumumba government. Different factions started to fight the government and Katanga and Kasai tried to secede from the rest

Sub point 1: Problem 2: Another huge problem is their lack of education. In another website called Education in Democratic Republic of the Congo, updated on April 19, 2017 by the USAID, 3.5 million children of primary school age are not enrolled in school. This issue is also largely affecting their health issue as well, because people have no knowledge of how to prevent diseases from spreading into their bodies, such as malaria as mentioned earlier. For most of us, who had K-12 education without any restrictions, these problems might be totally unimaginable.

advocate for the Congolese people, not just human rights in general. In the book, we see that a

creates a lack of understanding between the social groups in the Congo and their own

At these moments, life in the Congo is a living nightmare. The eastern provinces of the Congo see violence every day. Women are getting raped at alarming rates. Children are constantly abused and forced to become child soldiers. There are no sources of medicine or even clean water. Anyone can get murdered at any time, and no one is even safe in their own homes.

In recent years, Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have launched major healthcare initiatives in order to expand and improve access to services. However, the state of health systems for the last 20 years is difficult to overcome. Liberia and Sierra Leone were each embroiled in civil wars until the mid-2000s. Porous borders and a shared diamond belt meant that their conflicts were often shared, as political strife, violence, looting, armed forces, and refugees moved to neighboring countries. , Guinea in particular was on the receiving end of refugees. During that time in all three countries, health systems were uniformly poor, with under-staffed and under-resourced facilities, significant health disparities, and almost no systematic infectious disease surveillance or control.

Children sadly tend to suffer the most due to poverty, “1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty.” Many catch diseases, such as AIDS, before the

The health of many women in Algeria which is part of Sub-Saharan Africa in 1990 were impacted by the poor health care system because they lived in poverty. Poverty caused these women to lack essential needs to live a quality life. They lacked or could not afford resources such as supplies, health care professionals, and facilities for healthcare, clean water, and waste disposal. This ultimately affected the health of women and their children. For instance, lack of clean water and waste disposal facilities can cause health abnormalities such as cholera or typhoid fever which can cause devastating deaths. This is a healthcare problem because of the lack of funding. The lack of funding prevents antibiotics from being used to prevent death, and prevents African’s from being vaccinated against typhoid fever. Another example of how poverty affects woman’s health is unintended pregnancy, which is because they are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior. It's part of the health crisis because it includes a poor health system, and a lack of education about proper nutrition and behaviors during pregnancy. Complications in these pregnancies due to poor nutrition and not visiting the doctor regularly includes increased infant mortality. Infant mortality in the slums of Nairobe is 91.3% while it is 75.9% in urban areas where there is a better developed healthcare system. The inferiority of poor Africans in

As the head of a small aid agency in Congo, our duty is to cater the refugee’s health dilemmas and concerns. We must attend to their needs by providing them the right health services suited for their condition. Like what is happening in the camp, the refugees are in need of cornea transplant because of the poor water condition which resulted to them being blind. Therefore, we must do any possible means of giving them enough corneas and adequate protection they need by figuring out how to eliminate the peculiar parasite in the water. Aside from that, incoming refugees would be possible knowing that civil war is happening at the moment so we also need to accommodate them

According to the Paris Principles on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, a child soldier is a person under 18 that has been recruited by an armed group for purposes that can relate to combat. Among the countries that have child soldiers is the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has a population of 67.5 million. The DRC has had a history of violence and oppression, and an unstable political system has led to more unrest in the present. In the Congo, children are not only used as soldiers, but many are subject to rape and being forced to mine for mineral resources in horrendous conditions, and in order to stop this, either the UN needs to send even more humanitarian aid or big companies need to stop accepting materials from known

Nations affected by wars and armed conflicts have experienced severe public health consequences deteriorated by population’s displacement internally and externally to adjacent countries, food shortage, and inefficiency and failure of basic health services. All previous factors will give rise to the term complex humanitarian emergencies. These public health changes are reported to be more severe in developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. And because of the formed situation created by these factors, refugees and internally displaced persons have high mortality rate during the period immediately after their migration (Toole & Waldman, 1997).

Why does a country rich with diamonds and oil have such a high child mortality rate? Corruption has taken over. Many villagers do not even know there is wealth in their country. They do not know their healthcare is bad because they simply do not know much about what is occurring throughout the world. Women are not informed of how terrible the healthcare they are given actually

The conflict in the Republic of Congo can generally be attributed to a lack of democracy. The lack of democracy has developed an unfair supply of resources and corruption amongst government officials. Corruption in government slows the economic growth for all societies. The government is weak, and the judicial system is vulnerable against large political interference. Political conflict and the damage of social and economic structure have destroyed the economy. Corruption among government officials and foreign investors in the Republic of Congo has increased widespread poverty, hampered economic development, and widened unequal income and wealth distribution that is negatively affecting the poor more than the rich. By implementing new

In Côte d’ivoire, the disparities in immunization services are due to period of crisis which started with a coup in 1999 followed with a period of war in 2002 (International Monetary Fund, 2009) this conflict lead the country to be split into two zones with the North and North West controlled by the New Rebel Forces where health services were completely closed down and health facilities used as military bases and South for the Government where there was still some health services. The internal displaced people which included mothers and children moved from the North, New Rebel Forces held