Thursday, March 27, 2008

Three major diseases in Djibouti and some reasons why people don't have Healthcare


AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis are the three major diseases in Djibouti. AIDS is a STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) virus that weakens and destroys your immune system. According to the CIA WORLD FACT BOOK and you can get malaria from mosquitoes. You can get tuberculosis from the air when someone sneezes or even coughs. Djibouti gives $12 million US dollars to improve the control of those three diseases 14% of Djibouti women that are 15-24 are HIV infected. According to the World Health Organization 2 million people in the world die from malaria and 400 to 500 million are infected each year.
Children are 75% of these deaths because pregnant women are high at risked targets.
A good thing about malaria is that preventable, detectable, and curable. While AIDS and tuberculosis is not.http://www.afrol.com/articles/12923.

Do to poverty in Djibouti, 75% of the population can not afford health care. Most people in Djibouti who have health care maybe own there own business or it has been donated to them. What I mean by donated is that there are a lot of companies but one of the infamous ones are the UN (short for United Nations). If you donate to that company you can give a child in Djibouti something to eat and maybe Health care. The UN does not only go to Djibouti but to everywhere in the world. Help Djibouti out.

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