AIDS AND FAMINE IN AFRICA

SS7CG3DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT

STABILITY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES TO COMBAT AIDS AND FAMINE

ACROSS AFRICA

What is HIV and AIDS?

• Human Immunodeficiency Virus• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome• Came about after World War II• Jumped from species of chimpanzees and sooty

mangabeys in microbial form to humans when they were hunted for food and blood transfer occurred, according to CNN

• First confirmed case; a Bantu man in Africa in 1959

• in confirmed cases in America around 1981 • Called AIDS for first time in 1982

What is famine?

• a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Widespread hunger caused by the near complete lack of food.www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/vocab/topic_alpha.cfm

A situation of extreme scarcity of food, potentially lead to widespread starvationwww.developmenteducation.ie/glossary/

Why should we be concerned?

• 5 young people around the globe are infected every minute of every day

• Most don’t even know they have it• Millions of innocent children are dying every year• Every year 15 million children die of hunger• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of

humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger • What do you think?

What does government stability in Africa have to do with the problem?• Africa is predominantly a political mess!• There have been numerous civil wars, overthrows of governments

in place, tribal and cultural upheavals, and resource battles among African nations.

• Most of these events have taken place in countries South of the Sahara

• Stability is fleeting and has been since most of these countries gained independence less than 50 years ago.

• With the problems of desertification, AIDS, famine, lack of clean water, and population explosion how do you think this question should be answered?

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