Global+Infectious+Diseases+Case+Study+1


 * Part One: The Case Study**

In order to be able to create an action plan and effect change in your issue area, you need to conduct a case study of one particular program that is currently working on your topic. That means your topic has to very specific and narrowed. For example: Child Poverty in India is way too broad of a topic. Instead: Street Children in Delhi, India. Write your NARROWED and SPECIFIC topic below: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
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 * Step Two: Now that your group has chosen a specific topic you need research what is already happening to help your area. Make sure to write down who did what part.**

What is the organization? The Canadian International Development Agency is an agency in Canada for development assistance, which works to support development in developing countries to reduce poverty and contribute to enhancing the quality of life. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? CIDA has planned to give new funding to the Africa Health Systems Initiative in their ten-year program of supporting African-led efforts to enhance health systems, and make progress toward reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. They plan to improve access to health care by providing support to arranging African health workers who can make basic health more accessible. What are some of the things you like about their program? CIDA's program talks about the most important thing for AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is not much access to proper health care. It is essential to improve the access to health care for people in that region, and arranging African health workers will certianly help in providing access to health care. What are some questions you have about it? For this program, I would like to know their progress for it since the program was announced in 2006. If they are starting to emply the African health workers, I would like to know how many have been sent to Africa and how did this actually affect the health of people in sub-Saharan Africa. How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? I think our group can model our action plan after this by thinking about what is really needed to be done in sub-Saharan Africa, under the consideration that our group is not a big organization. As a small group, the most effective thing we could do is to educate people in our local community about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and how they could actually contribute to provide help for the people in that region. http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cidaweb/acdicida.nsf/En/Homehttp://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/NIC-55134013-NQU Name: Christy
 * Part One: Find and research an organization that is currently doing work on your narrowed topic and answer the following questions. Answer the questions and **fill out the resource log (it is posted on the wiki under Assignments)** and post it on your wiki.
 * Part Two: Find and research another organization (yes, this means your group is researching two organizations) that is currently doing work on your narrowed topic and answer the following questions. This person should answer the questions and print out the resource that they gathered this information from.

What is the organization? __CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency)__ What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? __CIDA is working on educating in public and it is working - people in Africa got more clear information on how the disease spreads, and kills people.__ What are some of the things you like about their program? __I like the fact that they succeeded, even though they are still working on it, in educating people in Sub Saharan Africa to get more thought about AIDS.__ What are some questions you have about it? __How often do you have contact with people in Sub-Saharan Africa?__ How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? __We can get involved with this organization by__ Make sure to give your resource information to person one. ((http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/NIC-55134013-NQU)) What is the organization? __AVERT, an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, working to AVERT HIV and AIDS worldwide.__ What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? __Education through website [|www.avert.org], donation of money, prevent new infection and help the ones who are already infected in sub Saharan Africa, work on a project called, Sisonke (which means, 'coming together') etc.__ What are some of the things you like about their program? __I like that the organization actually has contact with people in Sub Saharan Africa to reduce the amount of people with AIDS.__ What are some questions you have about it? __If you donate the money, how is it exactly going to be given to the people in sub-Saharan Africa?__ How could you become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? __We can go to the website of this organization and make sure that we understand what they are doing in order to get more clear idea of how we can help people in Sub-Saharan Africa.__Make sure to give your resource information to person one. (([|http://www.avert.org/help-aert.htm])) Name:_So jin 
 * Part Three: Type a persuasive opening paragraph on your wiki about your topic. Make sure your group is filling out your resource log with the sources you have used so far.

 Opening paragraph:

Among numerous infectious diseases in the world, HIV/AIDS is the one which is famous for its fast infection rate and large number of live victims. What is AIDS? It is the infectious disease in the immune system. AIDS, the killer of numerous people, has been and is still being the cause of the death of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of people suffering and dying from AIDS are enormous in Sub-Saharan Africa, where AIDS was first originated. At the end of 2007, approximately 22 million people in Sub Saharan Africa, including adults and children, were living with HIV/AIDS. They NEED help. Then, what are we going to do in order to help them out? Mainly, we have three things planned out. First, we plan to get more attention from people and persuade more people to support us as well as other organizations who are seeking to help people in Sub Saharan Africa stop suffering from HIV/AIDS. Getting attention from a lot of people worldwide does help a lot in resolving such an issue through people's interest and donation. We can get more attention and persuade people by creating a website or a commercial about how people are suffering and how bad HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa. YOU can also be part of our project. Furthermore, we also plan to educate others about HIV/AIDS and their effects worldwide. We'll do this by creating a website full of information about HIV/AIDS and actual ways people can join to help prevent AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Also, we will be leading our local community to actually help the people in sub-Saharan Africa through donation. We will be organizing a fund raiser in our school and our community which will be given to the people in sub-Saharan Africa through other AIDS-preventing organizations. Our organization will help the people suffering from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa by educating people in our local community about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, getting people's interests, donation, and your help.

Name:___Jack_____