person becomes infected it can drastically decrease a person’s immunity. The main concern at the conference is that if a proper and effective treatment isn’t found for the drug resistant cases of TB and the MDR-TB cases‚ that it could increase to pandemic proportions. Without successful treatment and maintenance of TB at it’s manageable strain‚ it can potentially put over 200‚000 lives at risk of being lost‚ and billions of dollars spent purely because of poor treatment management. Claims
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life experiences. It is informative‚ challenging‚ provocative and will promote the debate that is necessary to overcome the myths that perpetuate ignorance. The book also thoroughly addresses the traditional myths and denial associated with the pandemic and calls for an action-oriented approach by the society in dealing with HIV/AIDS. For those who may not know‚ Dr Nyati has also authored internationally acclaimed plays: God of Women & Oracle of Gidino which also address the subject of stigma
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described as a pandemic. The Dictionary of Epidemiology defines a pandemic as “an epidemic occurring on a scale which crosses international boundaries‚ usually affecting a large number of people”. In April 2014 the HSRC (Human Sciences Resource Council) released a report stating South Africa has the highest number of new HIV infections worldwide‚ the number of infected people now stands at 6.4 million people. Allowing HIV positive people to have children only serves to perpetuate the pandemic even further
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Discuss the impact of one infectious disease on the health‚ economic development and lifestyle of the area where it occurs? An infectious disease that affects health‚ economic development and lifestyle is HIV/AIDS. This disease is a pandemic that has spread over continents and all over the world. An area where this disease has effected the most is in South Africa‚ this is because it’s estimated that 5.6 million people are living with HIV and AIDS. Leading on to my next point‚ this has a massive
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progress‚ highlighting how ingrained biases maintain inequality. Similarly‚ in The Namesake‚ individual identity and social exclusion within immigration communities are discussed through cultural expectation and stereotype. In that sense‚ the COVID-19 pandemic increased these injustices faced by research
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The Black Death was a name given to a deadly pandemic that spread from China to Mongolia‚ Northern India‚ and the Middle East during the 1300s. It moved with astonishing rapidity‚ advancing about two miles per day‚ summer‚ or winter. It continued to erupt in local epidemics from the next 300 years; some localities could expect a renewed outbreak between 1661 and 1669‚ although there were sporadic outbreaks in Poland and Russia until the end of the eighteenth century. In 2011‚ medical historians have
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bubonic plague seems to refer to an era long passed. Associated with the filthy living conditions of industrial Europe in the 14th century its beginnings are centuries prior in the Roman Empire. The Plague of Justinian is the first well documented pandemic of the bubonic plague and “it killed up to 10‚000 people a day”("Bubonic plague‚" n.d.‚ 1). When the plague struck Asia and Europe “an estimated 25 million people”("Bubonic plague‚" n.d.‚ 2) were killed. No specific races or ethnicities are more
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regarding how the possible spread of a deadly disease can play out around the world. Although the virus called MEV1 in the movie was fictional‚ the actual content behind the virus was based on events that have occurred. In fact‚ the movie’s fictional pandemic virus‚ MEV-1‚ is based on the very real Nipah virus‚ according to W. Ian Lipkin‚ an epidemiologist and virologist at Columbia University. The Nipah virus suddenly and surprisingly jumped from pigs to humans in Malaysia in 1999‚ causing more than
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as well as modern slavery. As colonialism and historical slavery greatly contributed to the perpetuation of systemic racism‚ the everlasting cycle between modern slavery and systemic racism persists today and has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic‚ as shown in modern slavery in Indonesia. The relationship between colonialism and slavery is closely intertwined as both contribute significantly to the economic prosperity of European powers and are the
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forms of the plague and the ways in which it is currently diagnosed and treated. Three major plague pandemics have occurred throughout history. The first originated in Africa in the 6th century and claimed the lives of one hundred million people within 60 years. The second pandemic‚ known as ‘The Black Death’ began in the14th century and killed up to one quarter of Europe’s population. The final pandemic in 1860 began in China and was transmitted via infected rats on steamships to port cities over the
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