Tuberculosis

Back in the 1850s in New York, an epidemic blazed. People were becoming sick and dying. Even babies were suffering. This was the Swill Milk Scandal, a plot to make money that killed as many as 8,000 infants in just one year. People were drinking tampered swill milk and still would have been had not regular New Yorkers raised their voices and stood up for those that were sick. The same is true in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is set in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama. A girl named…

NAME AND STUDENT NO: EM CHABANGU 24261386 TEL NO: 0725279096 TITLE: THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY 1. Background 1.1. Introduction A few years ago, a terrible disease, previously unknown to the human race, started to kill people in the most shocking and frightening circumstances. According to Karen (2000:1) HIV and AIDS is one of the major challenges facing South Africa today, it affect the lives of all south Africans in many diverse ways. The disease has an extensive…

Introduction Neiserria gonorrhoeae is a gram-negative bacterium, strictly human pathogen and the causative agent of the sexually transmitted infection Gonorrhea or “the clap” which has infected both men and women for thousands of years. It is named after Albert Neisser who first isolated it in 1879 (Dixson,2015). The disease it caused Gonorrhea, is a term coined by second century Greek physician Galen stands for “as flow of seed”. It is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in…

Haiti hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. Haiti has an estimated 12,000 non-governmental organization deployments from all over the world, yet 2,500 people died of cholera which is a disease that is easily controlled. In Haiti there is poor governance and they have a weak judicial system. The President controls the judiciary, with consent of Parliament. Donors have tried to assist the Haitians in reforming their judicial system. Its shortcomings…

Part I: There are several side effects that you should look out for when taking Symbicort. Lung infection caused by bacteria or viruses, pneumonia, is one of the major side effect seen in patients taking Symbicort. If you are having a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a type of disease that stops the the air when breathing and results in difficulty breathing, you have higher chance to get pneumonia after using Symbicort. Symptoms indicating this side effect include change in amount or…

The 1992 Democratic National Convention Address speech talks about how America needs to start doing something to help people with HIV. Elizabeth Glaser uses emotional appeal in her speech. She talks about how her daughter died from HIV and she says that her and her son might not be able to survive 4 years. She also uses logical appeal because she states facts about America and AIDS. When she says “ America, wake up! We are all in a struggle of life and death” she used ethical appeal. She is…

In the Nova program “Ebola - The Plague Fighters - NOVA Documentary” explains how Ebola virus, the deadliest virus on Earth can cause a human to host to bleed in a matter of days. Ebola, a scientific enigma that causes severe bleeding, organ failure that can lead to death. In 1995, a recent Ebola outbreak occurred in a small city in Kikwit in Zaire, Africa, where 250 people killed before contained. As medical experts from the Center Disease of Control (CDC), as well as relief workers, were…

There are many organisms in the world. In microbiology lab, I was given an unknown organism and I was told I must figure out what organism it truly is. I had the honor to conduct a few experiments to come to an conclusion on what the type and name of the organism was. Each member of my class was given a plate of agar and a random number that correspond to the plate of agar. I was given the number 191. The agar contain a bacteria growth. In the end of my experiments I realize my unknown organism…

In her book, Love, Money and HIV, Sanyu A. Mojola examine the relationship between modernity and the discrepancy that exists in HIV infection rates in young women in Southern Africa. Mojola’s research takes place in Kenya (the third most populous African Nation) in the province of Luo-Nyanza. Here, she conducted interviews, gathered quantitative data on HIV infection rates, and conducted randomly selected case studies on students from local high schools to understand why and how HIV is so…

Over three billion people, about half of the world’s population, live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day (Shah). Every year, two hundred million people become infected with malaria. Of these cases, half a million will die (“Against Malaria”). These are just a couple of issues that Peter Singer, a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, as well as many other effective altruists, are trying to solve. But are effective altruism groups truly successful and good? Yes, they are!…