Global Issues: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography
Shah, Anup. "AIDS around the World." Global Issues: Aids Around the World. N.p., 29 Nov. 2009. Web. 09 Jan. 2014. .
This source is an online source from Global Issues. This website tells about aids and how it has become such a widespread epidemic. There are many facts and number included from different countries around the world as well as graphs to show these different numbers. It also talks about how poverty plays a big role in this disease, because a great number of people live in less developed countries and can’t afford treatment. This source also talks about the global fund and how several countries have come together to form programs and plans to prevent further spread. The position of this source is taking the next step, all together as countries, to prevent the spread of this disease which is impacting the mortality rates as well as the general health of people. This is a reliable source as it uses quotes from real people from nations and it uses reliable and factual numbers and graphs.
"Global AIDS Overview." Global AIDS Overview. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 02 Dec. 2013. Web. 09 Jan. 2014. .
This source is an online source from an official U.S.
Government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. This website told a lot of facts and number relating to how many people currently live with HIV and aids and how the numbers have greatly increased over the years. Most people living with aids these days live in low and middle income countries and don’t have access to prevention or care. Aids not only affect people, it also affects households and communities and the development of nations. This sources position is taking the side saying that we should help to prevent the spread of these diseases because it goes into detail and states how people receiving treatment every year has begun to increase. This source is reliable as it is an official US government
website.

"Health Financing." WHO. World Health Organization, n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. . This source is an online source from the World Health Organization. The main idea of this source is the health financing and all of the finances that comes from aids. This article tells how economic leaders are encouraging a market friendly and pro-privatization approach to health financing. Many poor people can’t afford the user fees for prevention of this disease. Insurance schemes are trying to be put into effect, so that instead of paying a large bill all at once, people will pay little by little over time. The position of this source is how to prevent the spread of this disease by helping less developed countries with their finance issues so that people can afford prevention. This is a reliable source because it has provable information and comes from the World Health Organization.
"Graphs: Iran in UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010." Map. Payvandcom RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. .
This source is a graph showing a global view of HIV infection all over the world in 2009. This graph shows the percentage of people in every country living with the HIV infection. The higher percentages, such as 15-28% were in countries that were less developed and living in poverty. East Asia and a lot of South America had little percentages, as they are more developed and able to get prevention against these diseases. In 2009, in the entire world, between 31.4 and 35.3 million people were living with HIV. As the more developed countries with more available money and more plans have been put into action, the number of people getting this disease has decreased. The position of this source is to help those countries who are less fortunate. This source is reliable because it contains many graphs with factual information and numbers.