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Final Class Meeting Return final paper

Health Gender Children Human Rights

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Class Evaluations

Health Challenges

Health Priorities Preventative vs. Curative General vs. Targeted

Elite Origins->Post-colonial growth->Post-SAP cutbacks Who gets what where and why

Culture and Health Healing from Indigenous knowledge Harmful local myths

Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria Environment and Health: Clean water

Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria

New Developments Global fund,

http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/how/

AIDS drugs more available Simple solutions to Malaria?

Diseases combined effect often lethal Drug resistant TB?

Africa’s challenge of AIDS, TB, and Malaria Hunger exacerbates AIDS,

Malaria, and TB with medications with nutritional conditions

Cultural strengths and cultural weaknesses Community networks vs. harmful

cultural myths about AIDS and sex?. Natural resistance?

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New HIV infections

AIDS illness and deaths

Family impoverishment

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School drop-out

Child VulnerabilityAbuse/ exploitation

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But what about Diaheria and Diabetes? Diaheria

Old problem of sanitation and malnutrition

Diabetes and heart disease Africa’s changing diet

More starch (Ugali na chipsi) Less fresh vegetables (mboga)

Plaguing many African cities Links to loss of Ik, but possibly genetic

risks

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A Nexus of Relationships or A vicious cycle

Diseases of Underdevelopment P174

A vicious cycle: Aids orphans

Nexus of relations within

Development->population change, movement, health, human rights, and environment

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Discussion on Human Rights in Africa Civil and Political Rights Social Economic and Cultural

Rights Geography and human rights:

“Who gets what where?” Gender and rights and

development Children, Development, duties and

rights

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Gender Women’s Double-Double work day: Double Colonialism Gender and Agriculture

Changes in land tenure Property, law, and travel issues Women’s burden in AIDS Girls’ Education at the expense of boys education

“Watering another man’s garden” Women’s burden concerning alcohol abuse, DV, and

parallel families Women in Development and women’s strengths

Greenbelt movement and women’s empowerment Liberia’s first female president Ellen Sirleaf

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Children CRC Duties and protection as important as freedoms Protection from Abuse Street Children’s rights AIDS Orphans Protection from Child labor Challenges of universal primary education

Less children in school now than 20 years ago Overcrowding Teacher training Language or Lugha Going to school hungry

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Remaining Discussion Questions

Remaining Discussion Questions answered by Cecil Rhodes