Human Development Index to Measure Living Standards Within a Country, Especially HIV

From the start in 1945, one of the main priorities of the United Nations was to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. Improving people’s well-being continues to be one of the main focuses of the UN. The global understanding of development has changed over the years, and countries now have agreed that sustainable development that promotes prosperity and economic opportunity, greater social well-being, and protection of the environment offers the best path forward for improving the lives of people

It is hard to say that all developing countries are not equal, because they aren’t. According to the data in Hans presentation, even though almost all countries have changed and had a percent of progress but not all of them got advanced in the same

According to the Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (FHAPCO 2012:1) occurrence of the Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic is one of the leading public health problems the world has ever realized in current history. In the past thirty years HIV has spread fast and affected entire segments of people: child, young and adult people, men and women, and the rich and the poor.

The UN document’s main focus was about social justice. “Social Justice is [the] foundation for national stability and global prosperity” (United Nations, 2011, para. 2). Highlighted the needs of basic security, equal opportunity for men and women, access to public services, and decent employment opportunities. Maximizing potentials of people that are unemployed will prevent them from living in poverty and being left behind if economies grow further.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS, global health problem, mode of transmission, risk behavior, incidence, prevalence, preventive modes, pandemic, epidemic, symptoms and characteristics of the

When investigating the global state of poverty and prosperity there is clear difference between the wealthy nations and impoverished nations. In the past decades there has been an increase in economic polarity between the developed and developing nations of the world. Some nations are prospering greatly while others countries are still struggling to achieve, economic, political, and social stability. The book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson attempts to explain why some nations have seen great success in their economic and political development, and why other nations are still failing to develop in this way. The arguments derived come from the key themes in chapters 3, 8, 9 and 15 of Acemoglu and Robinson’s book.

When working to improve health care systems and decrease the number of people getting infected with HIV it is important to learn from past experiences and create attainable goals. Recently the UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board met to create a new strategy to combat HIV (UNAIDS). This strategy for 2016-2021 aligns with one of the new Millennium Development Goal created by the United Nations that states it would like to end HIV as a public health threat and epidemic by 2030. UNAIDS set a series of ten targets, which coincides with the United Nations Millennium Development Goal and are listed in Table 3, as part of its strategy to reduce the prevalence of HIV around the world.

Social progress consists of three major components: Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing, and Opportunity. Utilizing the social progress index to understand the needs of a society to grow overall, Out of the three, the one that stands out the most is the Foundation of Wellbeing. Foundations of Wellbeing are the measurement of citizens having access to education, information, knowledge, healthcare, and clean environmental living conditions. This category has the most relative correlation of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita. A higher GDP leads to a longer life, more education, and just a better upbringing. It’s essential for a society to keep up with its citizen’s gain of knowledge. Knowledge is always the key to success in this world, the more you know the better off you are.

Development is defined as “the process of change operating over time- the process by which countries and societies advance and become richer’’. The modern 20th century defines development as” the process of change which allows all the basic needs of a region to be met, thereby achieving greater social justice and quality of life and encouraging people to fulfill their potential’’. Todaro defines development as “the process of improving the quality of all human lives through raising people’s living standards, their incomes, consumption levels of food, medical services, education, raising people’s self-esteem through the establishment of social, political and economic systems and institutions that promote dignity and respect and increasing people’s

Every country in the world desires to have their name listed as the most developed countries in the world. For one country it may be easy to develop, whereas one might struggle for development. Thus, development is not an easy thing to achieve. Factors such as production levels, inequality and corruption contribute to the country’s human development index. Gender inequality is one of the factors that may lower a country’s human development index, because the inequality creates implications on the development for a country. This essay will contrast and evaluate the ranks of gender inequality index (GII) and human development index (HDI) between the two countries: Brazil and Turkey. Overall, this paper argues in terms of gender equity, the European country, Turkey, is developed when comparing to Brazil - Latin American country.

“Since World war II, development has been the most important term used to describe economic, social and political changes in what have come to be known as Third world countries” (Zhang, 2003).

HIV has shown to be one of the most destructive epidemics in history affecting the population, education rate and economy rate as well as the rate of poverty.

The term "Development" have been intermittently used to describe the effort to lift up the developing nations out of poverty and improve their livelihood. Development is a fondness for big goals and the big plans, however at the same time too rigid to predict what will work in the messy real world. The problem is, many development initiatives have gone wrong, and continue to. In fact, people who work in the various sectors of ‘development’ admit that on a whole development is not working. The reasons for their failure are numerous, ranging from, history, cultural, colonialists, religion, instability, corruption, racism, poor leadership, etc.

Joshi P.D. (1997) identifies the methods and indices used for measuring the magnitude and extent of poverty are not

We live in a world where the development is a primary and scarce good high in need and “demand “but is short in “supply” creating “development deficiency” (this much is agreed by many despite limited comprehension of the process of development itself and its ultimate fruits). Poor countries are in need of development taking into consideration they do not have assets to “back up” in contrast to emerging economies that are on the demand side given their economic assets. By “development deficiency” I mean we need and there is a potential “to produce” more development.