Humanitarian aid

Foreign aid is a very important part of decreasing poverty and creating a more peaceful environment for everyone around the world. One of the largest impediments to peace and prosperity is internal conflict. Foreign aid can be used to help prevent civil wars, mitigate its effects, and recover from its destruction. Which of these options is most effective in its objective? From researching each perspective, it is evident that preventing and recovering from civil war through the application of…

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 militia, and serves as humanitarian…

application of R2P without full-throated BRICS support will result in significant loss of credibility and legitimacy. Negotiating their continued adherence to the R2P principles will do much for the future of world stability and to help prevent future humanitarian crises across the…

It is better to think of foreign aid as an investment where the growth we stimulate in developing countries by providing developmental assistance, promoting peace, education, and health assistance, provides friendlier and wealthier customers to buy US products. Currently, the top 43 consumers of American agricultural products have been past recipients of American foreign aid. Big companies recognize the economic advantage in bringing others out of poverty…

end of World War II and with it the start of the Cold War marks the beginning of the use of foreign aid as an instrument to transfer resources between economies (Ruttan, 1996). An important characteristic of foreign aid has been that most aid transfers have taken place on a government-to-government basis. This characteristic emphasises the political dimension of foreign aid. In reality, foreign aid had already been provided for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II and to an extent…

HIV and Aids are known diseases, yet few people actually understand what they are. It is important to know the facts about HIV and Aids, so that one can understand how treatment works. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV is similar to many other viruses, like the virus that causes the “flu.” However, the body can fight against the virus that causes the “flu” but can’t fight against HIV. This is because HIV weakens the immune system by destroying T-cells or CD4 cells, which are…

When people first are diagnosed or discover they have AIDS, they may not start to begin to take medication. The decision to begin treatment depends on that certain individual; this is determined by past medical history, their current CD4 T cell count, how long they have been infected for and there current…

No treatment, vaccination, or antiviral therapy to treat Ebola hemorrhagic fever exists. Currently, patients are given intensive care support such as those that aid in preventing shock, maintaining blood pressure and oxygen levels. One of the main supportive treatments involving keeping the patients well hydrated and helping them to breathe as easily as possible, so that they attempt to beat the virus with the…

There are many challenges associated with disclosing one’s positive HIV/AIDS status to a sexual partner. This is due to cultural reasons such as fear of rejection; including partner abandonment and lack of community support. Nonetheless, what does this mean in terms of possible safe sex practices with individuals who choose not to disclose their positive status after unprotected sex with their partners? Although there are federal laws that protect the confidentiality of HIV-related information.…

self-assured intelligent law graduate from the university Penn. He is on his way to senior partnership at his huge law firm. But he 's hiding a private secret from his high esteemed employers, he 's been diagnosed with AIDS. When he gets terminated while being infected with AIDS he decides to file a lawsuit at his company. He is shown as kindhearted and cares deeply for his very lovely family who are very supportive during the entire length of the case. He plans to sue the law firm from which…