A man named Mitchell Besser once said, “Sub-Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden, yet only three percent of the world’s health care workers.” Due to issues such as health in Cameroon, people view that nation as well as the continent of Africa as impoverished. Health has always been a very prevalent problem in Cameroon. A record number of diseases contribute to their quickly deteriorating population. Fortunately, multiple generous nations help to provide health care for those who are poverty stricken and would not be able to receive treatment otherwise. When most people think of places like Cameroon, they only recognize the negative aspects of the nation. Although, with problems as bad as this, it is not hard to see why. …show more content…
Currently Cameroon’s population is decreasing by 2.5% per year, according to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO). That is exceptionally high percentage of people dying in a nation with its population of 21.7 million. Most of the people that pass away are diseased. Due to desperation for treatment in this nation, some practitioners have begun preying on the sick by opening illegitimate hospitals and practicing medicine illegally. On the word of an article by Moki Edwin Kindzeka, “The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide 200,000 deaths per year could be prevented if people did not use counterfeit drugs, mostly supplied in illegally run hospitals.” Illegal hospitals are responsible for many undocumented deaths. There are emergency treatments that some individuals need and these hospitals simply cannot provide it for them. “Cameroon has started a crackdown on medical institutions, including Chinese traditional medical practitioners, who are practicing illegally in the country.” (Africa News Service). Over 600 hospitals have been identified as illegal and shut …show more content…
It is nearly impossible to fight the disease-ridden environment that Cameroonians reside in, but they try. There has been many futile attempts to change the global perception of Cameroon and Africa as a whole. The bad simply outweighs the good, therefore people view Cameroon as poor and unable to sustain itself. Luckily, the world is full of humanitarians. People are constantly taking trips to Africa to help the people that are struggling. Doctors from other nations also go there to work at various clinics. Many nations have joined the war against illness to help the Cameroonian government manage this colossal issue. For example, Mutual Health Organizations (MHOs) provide financial assistance to those in Cameroon that cannot afford health care. “The AWARE-RH project, funded by USAID/WARP, is supporting the development and promotion of MHOs in the West African region.” (zunia.org). Also, The World Health Organization and the Global Health Workforce Alliance financially support human resources for health (HRH) in Cameroon. There are so many organizations willing to lend a helping hand to bring about change in
The United States of America accounts for only 5% of the world’s population, yet as a nation, we devour over 50% of the world’s pharmaceutical medication and around 80% of the world’s prescription narcotics (American Addict). The increasing demand for prescription medication in America has evoked a national health crisis in which the government and big business benefit at the expense of the American public.
Concerned authorities have focused essentially on criminalization and punishment, to find remedies to the ever-increasing prevalent drug problem. In the name of drug reducing policies, authorities endorse more corrective and expensive drug control methods and officials approve stricter new drug war policies, violating numerous human rights. Regardless of or perhaps because of these efforts, UN agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry at $US400 billion, or the equivalent of roughly eight per cent of total international trade (Riley 1998). This trade has increased organized/unorganized crime, corrupted authorities and police officials, raised violence, disrupted economic markets, increased risk of diseases an...
AIDS is slowly becoming the number one killer across the globe. Throughout numerous small countries, AIDS has destroyed lives, taken away mothers, and has left hopeless children as orphans. The problem remains that funding for the diseases’ medical research is limited to none. In the country Brazil, HIV/AIDS has been compared to the bubonic plague, one of the oldest yet, most deadly diseases to spread rapidly across Europe (Fiedler 524). Due to this issue, Brazil’s government has promised that everyone who has been diagnosed with either HIV or AIDS will receive free treatment; however, this treatment does not include help in purchasing HIV medications, that “carry astronomical price tags” (Fiedler 525). Generic drug companies have been able to produce effective HIV medications that are not as costly if compared to the prices given by the huge pharmaceutical companies. In contrast, the U.S. government has now intervened with these generic companies hindering them from making HIV medications, which may not be as efficient if made by the pharmaceutical companies. Not only are these drug companies losing thousands of dollars against generic drug companies, but also tremendous profit that is demanded for marketing these expensive drugs as well. “How many people must die without treatment until the companies are willing to lower their prices, or to surrender their patients so generic makers can enter market? (Fiedler 525).” With this question in mind, what ways can we eliminate the HIV/AIDS epidemic across the world? With research, education, testing, and funding we can prevent the spread of HIV to others and hopefully find a cure.
...g humanities survival as a whole. Treatment centers for curable diseases in Africa only promote dependency on foreign aid, how will these countries ever develop medical technology of their own if there is no need for it? Higher survival rates in children due to vaccinations also means more children are likely to survive until adulthood, which means they will also have children who will be born into the same rural jobless society their parents came from. This cycle can never be broken unless change is sought from within the country, not from others attempting to push the process along with funds. The simple fact is no matter how many schools or hospitals are built somewhere, unless the is a drastic change in the ideology of the people, those resources will continue to be mismanaged and the demographic transition from developing, to developed will never occur.
Also, this study is significant to the Ethiopian government; it will help them identify specific issues that they can reflect on their healthcare policies. The discovery that will be analogize...
I Chinweude Okani identify myself as a full-blooded Nigerian. Although I was born in the US my parents were both born and raised in the country of Nigeria. This diversity in my culture has both the benefits and lack of them. I think of myself as very privileged to live here in the US. This is especially true because of the divergence in the health care system in both countries.
Access to health care in Ethiopia has left many people without proper health care and eventual death. Millions of people living in Ethiopia die because of the lack of access to the health care system; improving the access to the healthcare system in Ethiopia can prevent many of the deaths that occur, but doing so will pose a grueling and challenging task. According to Chaya (2012), poor health coverage is of particular concern in rural Ethiopia, where access to any type of modern health institution is limited at best (p. 1). If citizen of Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin...
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There is a foreboding and ongoing crisis facing several third world countries today. This crisis is the rising amount of famine and health ailments that affect hundreds of thousands of individuals that face malnutrition, poverty, and several other serious problems that you will find in developing countries. Countless diseases plague today’s world and the people who are most vulnerable to these diseases are also the ones that need the most help. Despite the lack of funds and limited aid available to these people, there is hope. A group by the name of Doctors Without Borders is a non-profit organization that provides free health care in Refugee camps to the great amount of need and helpless individuals that populate our world.
May 9, 2001 African Networks for Health Research and Development; retrieved Dec. 9, 2003 http://www.afronets.org/archive/200105/msg00035.php.
Health care is among the worst situation in Uganda, it is to a great degree troublesome of the population who make low wages to get the advantages of health services. The measure of physicians in Uganda is low and a large portion of the ill are not getting treated by any means. There is around four physicians for each 100,000 individuals. Health facilities must charge for treatment that most people cannot pay for it, so they turn to conventional medicine. People tend to defer treatment to a great extent because it can increase costs and escalate illness, which may result in death.
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...tly should attend to the most urgent and highest needful problems to reduce the risk of developing those issues. Health priorities include reduction of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), decrease the road traffic accidents rate, reduce the infectious disease and vaccine preventable diseases, prevent transmit of HIV infections and reduce the poverty by minimizing gap between rich and poor. In addition, this health problems should be addressed in accordance to WHO guidelines, Millenniums development goals and according to other international health reporting standards. Moreover understanding the burden of disease is important where it helps to measure weightage of disease in a specific nation with that of the global situation. So supportively this will help to prioritize the urgent health problems in the country which will support the prevention of those health issues.
Compared to different countries Cameroon is regarded to be enjoying comparatively high political and social stability (Burnham 1975). it's set at the central country on the gulf of real, boxed by Federal Republic of Nigeria, chad the Central African Republic, The republic of Congo, African nation and African country. This country was initial discovered by the Bantu speaking individuals followed the Muslim within the 18th- nineteenth centuries (Burnham 1975, Njeuma 1995, Ngwainmbi 1996, and Manning 1991-1992). The land was at liberty colonial rule till 1884 once German dominated the world. Eighty maximize the world when warfare one was given to French by the League of states and British accumulated 2 hundredth adjacent to Federal Republic of Nigeria. Cameroon was suspect of being communist management throughout 1946 by the time once the country came underneath the United Nations territorial dominion that had caused Cameroon’s individuals union and liberty granted. The country was crushed in 1955 to 1958 and waged the campaign of revolutionary terror. John Foncha WHO semiconductor diode Kamerun National party promoted the unification. In 1957 Cameroon was set as UN autonomous state by France and in 1958 they voted for independence by 1960 within the general assembly. This country gained independence in one960 Jan 1 underneath the president Ahmadou Ahidjo, WHO was replaced by Paul Biya in 1982. This country is additionally reached in atmosphere since its earth science and cultural diversity is obvious and is termed “Africa in miniature”. There square measure several events that occurred in such country and such events influenced theories that had an impact on building and restructuring the event of such country or nation. The essay particularly goes to debate concerning the independence amount of Cameroon when and /or throughout the colony; stating the event views, theoretical influences and frame work which can have represent on some explicit policies issued by government of Cameroon.
The problems of formal health services and the challenges in sub-Saharan Africa have been widely documented. Findings from other current studies reveal a myriad of failures in the supply and demand side of health services. Access to formal services is also impinged by distance and financial factors; service quality is extremely very poor and is highly characterized by drug and staff shortages, lack of political commitment, poor infrastructure and negligence among health staff (Kadzandira and Chalowa, 2001).