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Originally Posted by froggy
Am lost. What seem to be problems to me are
1. endemic corruption, poor governance, weak government and ignorant populations 2. Natural disasters 3. lack of arable land and no food security 4. exploding populations
so how can we turn these to be opportunities? how can for instance the ebola and HIV viri offer opportunity. Should we embrace them as nature's equivalent of femiplan?
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How can we turn HIV and ebola into an opportunity?
There are Africans all over the world who are extremely well educated and extremely well read. We can look at the AIDS epidemic as our chance to review how we conduct healthcare in our nation. We can stop and say to ourselves:
"With AIDS exploding as it is in our nation, as well as other diseases, clearly the way we disemminate our healthcare is not working, which countries and examples can we look to of nations in similar circumstances that have phenomenal health care systems?"
My understanding is that Cuba, as poor as it is, has an aids rate that is one of the lowest in the world (some say 0.03%, others 0.7%). How can we model their healthcare system?
The Tswanas in spite of the fact that they have a huge AIDS epidemic apparently have exceptional health care with systems in place to train their doctors in the West and then for them to return home and serve with the AIDS situation. What can we learn from them and apply from them?
If you want to interject and say that we don't have the resources to do so, I strongly suggest that you have a look at the how much is sent to Africa in remittances every single year and do a brief mental exercise and calculate how much the typical person earns in the diaspora and how many shillings that translates into annually?
In short the opportunity is to stop, look at the situations as they are, look to nations that once were where we were (like European ones) and find out what we can copy?
I hope the article hasn't been to vague and abstract and has been clear enough to understand.
Remember, Rosa Parks being sent to the back of the bus could have been just another day in the life of segregation but instead it turned out to be the beginning of the civil rights movement.
The death of the next AIDS victim could be just another death or the beginning of the movement to bring universal,accesible and optimal health to all the people of Africa.
Are we on the same page