The Epidemic Of South Africa

We live in a country where all children go to school to gain an education and 25% of them will go onto receive some type of college degree. Compare this to low-income countries, in which children are 16 times as likely to die prior to their fifth birthday (Nickitas, Middaugh & Aries, 2016). Beyond the lens of our smartphones, Facebook friends and Nike sneakers is a world full of desperate people wishing to have enough food to eat for today. Many parts of the world lack sanitation, safe housing, sparse medical care and no medication. The global health issue are everyone’s problems not only for the sake of altruism but, with the increase in global travel for routine business and pleasure, dangerous pathogen are no longer confine by boarders. The Ebola outbreak four years ago, proved the necessity of a global solution to global health issues. The collaborative practice of several world health agencies and economically developed countries along with the use of volunteers, statistical updates, the latest literature and practices kept this outbreak mostly contained to its region of origin and the death toll to approximately 11,000 people (mainly in West Africa) (WHO,

The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.

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.

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

Africa is the cradle of the humanity, and the second most populated continent. West Africa has suffered from lack of infrastructure and healthcare. This handicap is characterised by the weather knowing that the west in close to the equator. The tropical climate bring a lot of mosquitos, wich brings malaria to the children and the women. One of the major need are the number of doctors is low. Most African countries import their medicine from the exterior: Ex Europe, India, Middle east theses countries just provide the medicine to the sub sahara region. The lack of technology for example,the Infrared thermography (IRT) used to determined if someone has cancer is not available in Africa due to the insufficiency of money.This cause a big gap between fortunate who can travel and get treat overseas and the who can not afford the tremendous cost. The importance of coming in help to West African healthcare is to develop strong relationship, because in some way if their healthcare is weak it can affect other continent. Some individual are willing to help the Africans countries. People are creating labs for African welfare. Big organization are currently providing heath supply to help treating diseases. African is well known for all the serious diseases it contain. with today 's world, and all the diseases Africa has suffered from a century of negligence toward healthcare. Even though West Africa is slowly getting on its feet after being

Also, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention lists Ebola as a Category A Bioterrorism Agent, making it’s prevention and/or care of the upmost priority (Levine, Tapia, Hill, & Sow, 2014). The chance of perishing from the disease differs depending on several different factors. These include but are not limited to, density of population, healthcare infrastructure, and financial resources (Seppa, 2014). Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries in Western Africa most heavily hit by Ebola, have dense populations, poor healthcare infrastructure and a lack of financial resources (Seppa, 2014). Additionally, none have dealt with the Ebola virus before, resulting in only two-trained health care workers for every 55 patients (Seppa, 2014). That ratio would be more balanced if health care workers did not abandon their post, likely due to fear, because about 10% of the deaths in this current epidemic are health care workers that were infected while treating infected people. The World Health Organization declared the current West African Ebola epidemic an international health emergency (Seppa,

Humanitarian aid to Africa works to address critical issues facing underprivileged communities. Ghana receives the humanitarian aid that helps provide the quality of healthcare and nutrition for children in need by partnering with the rural villages to implement sustainable solutions for the community growth. Although Ghana has made great strides with its low cost health insurance policies for both the rural and urban communities, preventable diseases such as malaria, cholera, respiratory infections and diarrhea are among the many illness causes of death, particularly the young

The lack of basic health services in large parts of the world allows diseases like Ebola to spread due to a lack of early warning. Primary health care services, laboratories and critical care facilities are necessary to alert the world that an outbreak of a dangerous disease is ongoing. In addition

doctors and nurses are beings sent to effected areas in West Africa to help prevent

In March of 2014, in West Africa, the Ebola outbreak began. This horrendous disease causes symptoms such as “…sudden onset of fever, muscle aches, weakness, sore throat and headache.” Last year, when Ebola spread, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believed the “…outbreak could reach 1.4 million cases by early next year.” The President Barack Obama spoke about the issue and what needed to happen in order to keep the people safe. However, a year later, Ebola is still taking lives from innocent people.

In 2013, the most widespread epidemic of the Ebola virus in history broke out in West Africa. My first introduction to the virus was in the following year, when popular media and news outlets across the United States picked up the story as Ebola became less of a foreign illness and more of a true threat to the nation’s health in the event that someone happened to carry it back from Africa. For years, I have had a fascination with medicine and pathology, and when I first read the news, my thoughts went first to how the virus had managed to spread so quickly. Now, as the threat has faded from the news and the concerns of the domestic United States, my attention has turned to the nature of the spread of infectious diseases. I was

The most soverely affected countries , Guinea, Sierra Leon and Liberia have very weak health systems, lacking human and infracstructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conflict and instablity. On Agust 8 the WHO Director general declared this outbreack a public health emergency of international consern.

Underdeveloped nations suffer from several problems that contribute to the spread of these diseases. Limited access to adequate public health systems are one of many troubling issues. Furthermore, these limitations can only accelerate the breakdown of the health system, Africa demonstrates an example of this vicious cycle. Spread of disease can trigger political instability, infected government officials or military leaders can straing economic resources, instill military coups, and lead to violent regime transitions, all of which can make it much more difficult to dedicate

For thousands of years throughout history, humans have had to contend with the spread of infectious diseases. One of the greatest concerns in today’s society is the constant fear of a potential outbreak of an infectious disease. A disease for which society does not have a cure or vaccine available, thereby obliterating the human race if it were to spread. Notable cases include the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1970s and 1980s, and the more recent 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa. Examining the distinctions between the two can give us a better understanding of how to combat potential outbreaks in the future.

The goal of a health care system is to improve the health of its people. However, universal health care in Africa in nonexistent and the majority of regional health systems are unable to deliver interventions to improve health conditions on an