Schistosomiasis

country. TB is frequent, parasitic diseases are presents. Cholera is epidemic, but sometime it remains endemic. The number of typhoid fever is high. According to IPHD (2001); “The major diseases in Guinea are: Malaria; hepatitis A; yellow fever; schistosomiasis; typhoid fever; and diarrhea. The life expectancy is 49.3 years and the infant mortality is 94.4 per 1,000 births.” Those statistics are not significantly improved since 2001. They look becoming worst. The mortality rate still remains…

are not, as I am sure you know. After only two months of being married she fell very ill. I was worried so I took her to see the elders in our village to see if they knew anything about her illness or how to heal her. They told me that she had schistosomiasis, which they told me is a parasite that comes from freshwater snails. They said that “in [the] water, there are minute and invisible sand lice that penetrate human skin when [a] man is bathing in streams or in water from the streams”…

2.0 Introduction Under the background of the global warming, the climate changes a lot in China over the past century and has the following characteristics. First, the average temperature of China rises strongly over the past 50 years since 1980s. The temperature of southwest area of low temperature keeps rising since 1990s. On the other hand, the temperature of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River tends to get rising in summer(Wang H.C. et al,2014). Second, the whole…

There are other services that are available to women; one of the most important involves violence prevention. It appears that over half of the interviewed women have been threatened at some point in their lives, 55% have been abused physically, 34% have been victimized financially, and 17% are victims of sexual violence (Ba-Obaid, M., & C.J.H. Bijleveld, C.). Women have to take the precautions of not going out at night and always having someone accompany them. The UN High Commission for Refugees…

INTRODUCTION Occupational Health refers to the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations. Workplace is a setting where gender inequalities could be seen with consequent impacts on health. Work affects women’s and men’s bodies and minds in many ways. Workers can earn great satisfaction from their jobs, but they can also be exposed to hazards that can affect their health. A gendered division of labour is found within the…

Although there is no clear and set definition of drought, to some extent it can be summed up to explain that drought occurs when a region has received less than normal precipitation which results in dryer than normal conditions for that particular region. However, people in different areas and environments have varying views on what drought is and when it is occurring, “characteristics of drought differ significantly between regions such as North American Great Plains, Australia, southern…

“terrorism, war and mass destruction combined” (Benjelloun and Tarrass 240). In these community’s, hand washing and personal hygiene are nonexistent. The most popular diseases contracted by inadequate sanitation and hand washing needs are “diarrhea, schistosomiasis, trachoma and intestinal helminths” (Benjelloun and Tarrass 240). The World Health Organization states these harmful bacteria’s are responsible for 1.6 million deaths every year. Diarrhea is the most prominent disease contracted and…

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Projects in China vs. U.S. The paradoxical nature of water has brought prosperity and destruction to many human civilizations. In the history of China and the United States, both nations have tried to tame its water to only bring prosperity to its people. The intensive construction of dams and irrigation in the U.S. West has contributed to West Coast’s economic and urban development. The inexorable water projects in China also played an important role in nation…

Pacific Region, WHO statistics shows that in 2014 about 94,000 deaths occurred due to diarrhea caused by lack of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. Over 100 million people in the Region are affected by NTDs such as helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis which are attributed to poor hygiene and sanitation…

known preventive measures or acute medical treatments which are available in the developed world but which are not universally available in poorer areas. In some cases, the treatments are relatively inexpensive. For example, the treatment for schistosomiasis is USD $0.20 per child per year. Nevertheless, control of neglected diseases is estimated to require funding of between USD $2 billion to USD $3 billion over the next five to seven years. Discussion: To truly understand what a neglected…