helpful or harmful? Is US food aid solving or creating a problem? These are all questions that ought to be addressed when considering how to best help those in need. When people think they are helping, quite often they are doing just the opposite, one problem may have been solved but it is very likely another has been created. Oftentimes, the best of intentions end in the worst results. History has shown that often times individuals, corporations, and governments go into a situation with the intentions of helping, remedying a situation, or filling a need, but when they remove themselves from the situation they have only left behind a larger problem. As author Daniel Jean-Louis expresses in his book “From Aid to Trade,” the fact that people…
Food Aid Impact on Developing Countries Food aid has created a way for underdeveloped nations to receive the emergency aid their countries need. Nations like Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) can misappropriate national funds on military projects instead of developing their agricultural industry (Feffer). On the other hand, countries like Ethiopia are dependent on foreign relief and are claiming a dependency syndrome (Siyoum, Hilhorst, Uffelen). Food aid does create a…
People tend to agree on the fact that food is necessary for life and that for anyone to have to be without it is a disgrace. Unfortunately, with extreme poverty comes extreme hungry and malnutrition. Because food necessary component of life, hunger is one of the first things nongovernmental organizations target. This is also where they can unintentionally cause the most harm to communities that are already struggling because if food aid is not handled properly it can harm a community. The influx…
HIV/AIDS, although not as prevalent a topic in North America, is a disease that has left the African continent devastated, both economically and socially. Both HIV/AIDS have had and continue to have an immense negative impact on the African population. Theses diseases have caused and are causing poverty, decreasing the size of the economy which is impacting citizens at both a macro and micro level, restructuring the livelihood of African households, and lastly HIV/AIDS are intensifying the…
HIV/AIDS volunteering in South Africa is an uplifting and rewarding program for both volunteers and patients. Volunteers need to be recognizing that there are various levels of patients need special care, involving babies, children, and those people have lost their parents. As a volunteer, he or she also should take care of ill patients, provide relevant support, and motivate them to be alive. Apart from that, volunteer should also attend community education and offer counselling for those…
Timeline of Events From 1981 to 2016 the education of aids has evolved over the years. In 1981 they had the first case of Aids. In 1982 was the first Aids case in Africa. In 1983 the CDC notes that Aids is not known to be transported through food, water, or environmental surfaces. From 1982 till 2016 they have made tons of Aids prevention groups for people to go to. In most to all of these years form 1981 to 2016 all said that wearing a condom can prevent Aids form being transmitted. In 1994…
AIDS, an invisible dead can change life and families of people who get infect. AIDS is the final form of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). This virus attacks and weakens human resistance and killing millions of people each year. There are millions of people living with AIDS today, about 60% of people in Africa got infect. People are living in fear because AIDS is easy to spreading and there is no medicine to stop this illness. During the AIDS Day Speech on 2006, President Obama gave a speech…
HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus has been and still is a huge public health concern. HIV is easily transmitted, and there are a lot of issues that go along with it. HIV is a serious virus that can completely destroy someone’s life. HIV is just like other common infections such as the Flu or the common cold, but the difference between HIV and the Flu is that the body cannot clear HIV from the body. Meaning once you have HIV, you have it for life. This paper is going to talk about the…
In the article “AIDS in Africa” by Alison Katz, a widely known member of the People’s Health Movement, there is a clear line between what many people think the root problems of AIDS/HIV are and what Katz believes. She makes many strong statements about this and makes her argument very well understood by the audience. She also gives light to why the masses ideas on AIDS/HIV are wrong. There are many comments made by Katz which tell the reader that the majority of people’s ideas about AIDS/HIV…
and locally generated policies (Raymond, 2011). The United States needs to take a step back and work to properly allocate foreign aid in a way that will slowly diminish Haiti’s dependence (Raymond, 2011). Foreign aid must not stop all at once; distribution of aid must be removed slowly to allow the Haitians to build towards their hopes of living…