International Global Studies

HIV/AIDS has been responsible for one of the worst epidemics in history. In her book “The Invisible Cure” Helen Epstein details why Africa in particular was so devastated by the disease, which countries failed and which succeeded in the struggle to contain the virus, and why this happened. Epstein highlights a particular phenomenon, that first took place in Uganda, but which can be translated to many countries and situations, and which she calls “the invisible cure.”

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In the documentary “Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague” shows how the Australian “method” of fighting HIV differs from the United States. The Australian procedure of stopping HIV/AIDS was a unique strategy, because the Australian government recognized that they have a serious AIDS pandemic in which they responded rapidly. Moreover, the Australian health policy response to HIV/AIDS has been one of the most successful in lowering the rates of the HIV/AIDS virus before governments took actions. In other words the Australians government bodies took in consideration of the virus by offering and distributing condoms, needle and syringe programs (NSPs), and public health programs which helped the country to keep a low rate of the virus compare to

There are many challenges and obstacles to the full implementation social protection in Brazil include the need to reduce limitation in the provision of proper care to each specific type of

Brazil has a big AIDS epidemic trying to prevent and help people people with the AIDS virus. Just after the AIDS virus first came to Brazil, they had one of the highest AIDS cases reported. Just behind the United States. Though the number of cases has decreased, it still proves to be a major problem, not only in Brazil, but around the world. AIDS had affected mostly males at first, however, it eventually affected everyone who was exposed to the virus. AIDS has proved to be a very big problem, there are about four million new cases and about two and a half million people that die from AIDS each year.

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Cuba In the recent years, Cuba has emerged as a world-class powerhouse of medicine in spite of having limited amount of resources, while the United States consumes over 10 to 20 times of what is essential for a beneficial and affordable healthcare system. Therefore, Cuba has been successful in achieving infant mortality rate lesser than that of the US, especially less than 50 percent of US Blacks. The existing debate over US healthcare system is not relevant to representing a path for poorer countries, such as Cuba, as over 30 percent of the country’s spending is an overhead by various private insurance companies. Such over budget includes a huge amount of over-treatment, which makes the poor sick by rejecting them treatment, creating illness and exposing them to contagious diseases through excess hospitalization and research based on disease rather than prevention.

Pharmaceutical companies had been reluctant to provide drugs to developing countries at reduced prices because of concerns around distributing drugs in unregulated and unreliable environments. They argued that this could create new drug-resistant

In the 1960s and 1970s, small CHW programs began to emerge in various countries, particularly in Latin America. The experience from CHW programs predating the 1970s provided the inspiration for much larger CHW programs in many low-income countries in the 1980s. Following the failure of many of the programs in the 1980s and 1990s, new highly successful programs have emerged and, at present, as a result of research findings demonstrating the effectiveness of community-based programs in improving child health in particular, there is now a resurgence of interest and growth of CHW program. In Brazil, community health workers are working in the community and known as Community Health Agent (CHA). CHAs work as a link between two different sectors. In Brazil, community exercises effective control of actions and health services

1. Comment on the Brazilian and Indian governments’ strategies for the prevention of AIDS via the marketing of condoms.

Brazil’s economy was thriving which was allowing them to fund this epidemic. As stated before, there have been an overwhelming amount of support in this epidemic. However, none of solutions have made a drastic impact on the problem.There have been donations of billions of condoms for anyone to use and they offer free treatment for anyone with AIDS. They are also telling women about the disease and offering free testing and if needed, treatment for the disease (“A Portrait in Red” 1). Even though they are providing all these people with plenty of help, it still has not made a drastic change. It is not working because the people are not educated enough to know about the right thing to do. They cannot make the right decisions because they do not fully understand the disease. These are the previous solution and why they have not

Government’s strategies in Brazil and India are different concerning the prevention of AIDS via the marketing of condoms. Brazilian strategy allows the prevention of AIDS, which is a good thing in a country like Brazil (“half a million Brazilians are infected with the virus”). The government is getting closer of people with high risk but is still insufficient. As the text said, Brazil is the second highest number of reported HIV infections in America after the U.S. Unlike the Brazilian government, the Indian is making a good campaign according to their religious believes and culture. The government is open-minded. But like Brazil, India is facing the quick spread of the virus, “already up to 2.4 million of India’s 1 billion people are infected with HIV”.

There are many characteristics of AIDS patients in Brazil. Statistics confirm that the HIV epidemic is focused between key residents. In addition, the last three years have shown a change in the age profile of described HIV. Most notable cases have been seen in younger individuals. The highest percentage of infection is with people aged 30–49 in 2013 (AIDS in Brazil, 2016). Poor health service is one of the main reasons that led people to suffer from AIDS in Brazil because some regions do not have good health services. Injection of drugs also is the main cause of the spread of HIV. In Brazil, 25% of HIV and AIDS cases are linked to drugs use (Cracking up, 2013). Sharing equipment and dirty needles for using drugs transfer HIV too. Add to this,

Over the past few decades Brazil has made major improvements to its healthcare system. Before 1988, half of Brazil’s population did not have health care coverage (World Health Organization). This changed when Brazil implemented Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) which provided universal free healthcare coverage for its citizens. Since its enactment, 75% of Brazil’s population now rely on Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) as their sole provider of health coverage, making it the largest public health system in the world (World Health Organization).

The country's numerous problems can be attributed to the racial disparities that have been entrenched in its history. In addition to being the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, Brazil has continued to suffer from poverty, high illiteracy levels, and poor health systems. These problems can be traced to the