Development aid

For example, the UK gives around 0.7% of its GDP in aid to developing countries. Or multi-lateral meaning a government gives aid to a non-governmental organisation who distribute the aid themselves. Both delivery methods of aid have been criticised for differing reasons, while a more controversial aspect of aid is that it can come in the form of tied aid in which the donor country transfers aid in exchange for a service by the recipient…

Through the past few decades, the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa did not look promising. Poverty, hunger, corruption, armed conflicts between individual countries, internal ethnic fighting, coups, epidemics, AIDS, malaria and other diseases, underdevelopment, inflation and foreign debt - are just some of the massive problems that the people of the African Continent have to cope with every day. With the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sub-Saharan Africa managed to improve its GDP from 367…

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Period 2/ #G27 11th March 2015 Foreign Aid: Does it help or hurt us and/ or them? Foreign aid is a financial help to other countries in need of money. Those monies are then distributed into different sections to benefit the country and its people. Will the United States lose money? What will it gain? The United States government spends only about 1% of our U.S budget, in aiding these foreign countries. This 1% of our federal budget contributes to the development of foreign countries, their…

Infection and diseases would not be easy to diagnose and research work will neither improve nor change until man decided to take a stand and make a change. Where and how would a disease with so much power shut down our immune system and leave us walking like a corpse? This kind of disease was either sent down as a spell or from the hands of unclean people. This would be a question that would basically cause a whole community to drink hot tea in the dead of the night from roots and shrubs to cure…

Robert S. Desowitz tells the story of two well-known diseases that affect many rural villagers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America of his novel The Malaria Capers. The first section of the book deals with Kala azar, which is transmitted by a fly. Desowitz begins the novel by introducing a tragic story in India of a distressed mother with a sick child. She traveled miles from her small village to a clinic, where her daughter was diagnosed with Kala azar or Visceral Leishmaniasis. The child is…

Origin of the AIDS Pandemic In modern day Congo in the capital city Kinshasa, formally known as Leopoldville, a group of professionals in a laboratory, collected samples that inadvertently changed the origins of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus since its emergence has spread throughout the entire world, causing the rise of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic. There are many different theories on the origins of the HIV infection that caused for the AIDs…

Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded in history, killing over 11,000 people. The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is responsible for the global urgent call response. The troubling question is, at what extent will GHSA respond to aid a disease epidemic? Many lives could have been saved in West Africa if there was an urgent response to the virus outbreak. The Ebola virus disease (EVD) first started…

Foreign aid is the exchange of goods, funds, and services from one nation to another. America has a long history of providing aid to foreign countries, and American’s have a long history of questioning it. In the United States, many citizens, cannot justify the idea of sending our money to other countries. Opponents of foreign aid say aid is, “being wasted, used to support dictators, or being spirited away to Swiss bank accounts” (Sachs pg.39). Others feel that the money is better spent…

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is one of the top 10 leading causes of death (WTO, 2014). While AIDS refers to the last stage of infection, the term is generally used to refer the entire stage of the illness caused by HIV. Ebola, famous for its 2013-2016 West African outbreak, is another deadly infectious diseases that brought a huge threat to the survival and prosperity of the human society. Because of their strong power and…