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//Now that you have your opening paragraph posted on the wiki, you need to post some more information on your case study. Post the questions as well as the answers on your wiki. Make sure to add youtubes, photos and video to your wiki as well.// 1. What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on? AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa 2. Which organization did you choose to focus on and why? AVERT and CIDA (Canadian Interanational Development Agnecy) http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/NIC-55134013-NQU#1 CIDA http://www.avert.org/about.htm AVERT 3. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? AVERT organization's main goal is to avert HIV/AIDS worldwide. AVERT has few projects and most of their projects focuses on the prevention of infection of infectious diseases in places like Saharan Africa and India. They also educate people worldwide about HIV/AIDS and some of the ways to protect themselves from getting infected by HIV/AIDS. CIDA organization's main goal is basically to educate people in public. They do have a lot of information based on infectious diseases worldwide and this is for the education of people worldwide about the diseases. 4. What are some of the things you like about their program? AVERT's goal is to AVERT HIV/AIDS worldwide and they have a lot of projects related to this issue. I like how they put all the information related to HIV/AIDS in different countries but especially in places such as Sub Saharan Africa, where AIDS has already infected thousands and millions of people. They not only had put information about HIV/AIDS. They also had posted some advices and helping tips. Here is the part of advice posted from the site:
 * if you need to know where you can find a place in your area where you can be tested :**
 * **Where can you get tested? (USA)** || **[|www.hivtest.org/]** ||
 * **USA and Canada AIDS/STD helplines** || **[|www.thebody.com/index/hotlines.html]** ||
 * **Where can you get tested? (UK)** || **http://www.fpa.org.uk/finder/****** ||

In addition, they also have links to some other charity sites if people want to help people with HIV/AIDS directly. They suggests two ways of helping them. One is to give money to the people their and the other is to spread the words to more and more people.

CIDA Does things quite similar to AVERT. Their goal is also to help people to suffer less from HIV/AIDS or even protect people from getting infected by HIV/AIDS. I also like this program because it has lots of information about HIV/AIDS and it's seriousness in lots of place (from A~Z countries). CIDA, however, is quite more detailed than AVERT. It has a lot more detailed information for each countries. AVERT talks more about how to prevent AIDS and CIDA talks more about the current situation such as the food production, and general inequality.

5. How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? We plan to learn how they are making it easy to educate, raise funds, and gather people's attentions in a convenient way. Both CIDA and AVERT have been successful in making it easy to know about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Also, in AVERT's website, it was very easy to donate as much money as you want while playing the computer just with your credit card. We think easy access is essential in making more people get involved, and apply it to our own organization. Also, we are going to learn how CIDA and AVERT were successful in teaching people about the information on AIDS and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In general, our organization is going to model AVERT and CIDA in their methods of education, donation, and catching people's interests.

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 * 1) Make a list of relevant articles and statistics on the issue

500,000 || 1.2- 1.5 || 210,000- 270,000 || 37,000- 52,000 || 24,000- 34,000 || 270,000- 380,000 || 2,000,000 || 7.1- 8.5 || 800,000- 1,100,000 || 130,000- 180,000 || 85,000- 130,000 || 990,000- 1,400,000 || This table shows the people living with HIV/AIDS, adult rate percentage, women and children with HIV/AIDS, AIDS deaths, and orphans due to HIV/AIDS in all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 1.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2007. In total, 22 million people are living with HIV in the region, which is two thirds (67%) of the global population of people with HIV. ([|http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/global?page=cr09-00-00)**] (ages 15–49) ||~ Total HIV cases ||~ AIDS deaths in 2005 || More than two thirds (68%) of all people HIV-positive live in this region where more than three quarters (76%) of all AIDS deaths in 2007 occurred. It is estimated that 1.7 million [1.4 million–2.4 million] people were newly infected with HIV in 2007, bringing to 22.5 million [20.9 million–24.3 million] the total number of people living with the virus. Unlike other regions, the majority of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (61%) are women. Approximately 8,000 men, women, and children die each day of HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections in Africa. Last year, 520,000 children died of AIDS in Africa and over 6,000 children are orphaned each day. Article) AIDS in subsaharan Africa(http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/poetry_and_society_today/106037[|)][|AIDS in subSaharan Africa - Part 6 Our Response(]http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/poetry_and_society_today/110786[|)] African NGO's Unite To Speak With One Voice On AIDS (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-12/2006-12-01-voa64.cfm?CFID=97144624&CFTOKEN=84329686&jsessionid=8830a350347f6ddcf7ef4571441018662938)
 * ~ Country ||~ People living with HIV/AIDS ||~ Adult (15-49) rate % ||~ [|Women with HIV/AIDS] ||~ [|Children with HIV/AIDS] ||~ AIDS deaths ||~ [|Orphansdue to AIDS] ||
 * Angola || 190,000 || 2.1 || 110,000 || 17,000 || 11,000 || 50,000 ||
 * Benin || 64,000 || 1.2 || 37,000 || 5,400 || 3,300 || 29,000 ||
 * [|Botswana] || 300,000 || 23.9 || 170,000 || 15,000 || 11,000 || 95,000 ||
 * Burkina Faso || 130,000 || 1.6 || 61,000 || 10,000 || 9,200 || 100,000 ||
 * Burundi || 110,000 || 2.0 || 53,000 || 15,000 || 11,000 || 120,000 ||
 * Cameroon || 540,000 || 5.1 || 300,000 || 45,000 || 39,000 || 300,000 ||
 * Central African Republic || 160,000 || 6.3 || 91,000 || 14,000 || 11,000 || 72,000 ||
 * Chad || 200,000 || 3.5 || 110,000 || 19,000 || 14,000 || 85,000 ||
 * Comoros || <200 || <0.1 || <100 || <100 || <100 || <100 ||
 * Congo || 120,000 || 3.5 || 43,000 || 6,600 || 6,400 || 69,000 ||
 * Côte d'Ivoire || 480,000 || 3.9 || 250,000 || 52,000 || 38,000 || 420,000 ||
 * Dem. Republic of Congo || 400,000-
 * Djibouti || 16,000 || 3.1 || 8,700 || 1,100 || 1,100 || 5,200 ||
 * Equatorial Guinea || 11,000 || 3.4 || 5,900 || <1,000 || <1,000 || 4,800 ||
 * Eritrea || 38,000 || 1.3 || 21,000 || 3,100 || 2,600 || 18,000 ||
 * Ethiopia || 980,000 || 2.1 || 530,000 || 92,000 || 67,000 || 650,000 ||
 * Gabon || 49,000 || 5.9 || 27,000 || 2,300 || 2,300 || 18,000 ||
 * Gambia || 8,200 || 0.9 || 4,500 || <1,000 || <1,000 || 2,700 ||
 * Ghana || 260,000 || 1.9 || 150,000 || 17,000 || 21,000 || 160,000 ||
 * Guinea || 87,000 || 1.6 || 48,000 || 6,300 || 4,500 || 25,000 ||
 * Guinea-Bissau || 16,000 || 1.8 || 8,700 || 1,500 || 1,100 || 6,200 ||
 * Kenya || 1,500,000-
 * [|Lesotho] || 270,000 || 23.2 || 150,000 || 12,000 || 18,000 || 110,000 ||
 * Liberia || 35,000 || 1.7 || 19,000 || 3,100 || 2,300 || 15,000 ||
 * Madagascar || 14,000 || 0.1 || 3,400 || <500 || <1,000 || 3,400 ||
 * [|Malawi] || 930,000 || 11.9 || 490,000 || 91,000 || 68,000 || 560,000 ||
 * Mali || 100,000 || 1.5 || 56,000 || 9,400 || 5,800 || 44,000 ||
 * Mauritania || 14,000 || 0.8 || 3,900 || <500 || <1,000 || 3,000 ||
 * Mauritius || 13,000 || 1.7 || 3,800 || <100 || <1,000 || <500 ||
 * Mozambique || 1,500,000 || 12.5 || 810,000 || 100,000 || 81,000 || 400,000 ||
 * Namibia || 200,000 || 15.3 || 110,000 || 14,000 || 5,100 || 66,000 ||
 * Niger || 60,000 || 0.8 || 17,000 || 3,200 || 4,000 || 25,000 ||
 * [|Nigeria] || 2,600,000 || 3.1 || 1,400,000 || 220,000 || 170,000 || 1,200,000 ||
 * Rwanda || 150,000 || 2.8 || 78,000 || 19,000 || 7,800 || 220,000 ||
 * Senegal || 67,000 || 1.0 || 38,000 || 3,100 || 1,800 || 8,400 ||
 * Sierra Leone || 55,000 || 1.7 || 30,000 || 4,000 || 3,300 || 16,000 ||
 * Somalia || 24,000 || 0.5 || 6,700 || <1,000 || 1,600 || 8,800 ||
 * [|South Africa] || 5,700,000 || 18.1 || 3,200,000 || 280,000 || 350,000 || 1,400,000 ||
 * [|Swaziland] || 190,000 || 26.1 || 100,000 || 15,000 || 10,000 || 56,000 ||
 * Togo || 130,000 || 3.3 || 69,000 || 10,000 || 9,100 || 68,000 ||
 * [|Uganda] || 1,000,000 || 6.7 || 520,000 || 110,000 || 91,000 || 1,000,000 ||
 * United Rep. Of Tanzania || 940,000 || 5.4 || 480,000 || 130,000 || 77,000 || 1,200,000 ||
 * [|Zambia] || 1,100,000 || 15.2 || 560,000 || 95,000 || 56,000 || 600,000 ||
 * [|Zimbabwe] || 1,300,000 || 15.3 || 680,000 || 120,000 || 140,000 || 1,000,000 ||
 * Total sub-Saharan Africa || 22,000,000 || 5.0 || 12,000,000 || 1,800,000 || 1,500,000 || 11,600,000 ||
 * ~ World region ||~ Adult HIV prevalence
 * Sub-Saharan Africa || 6.1% || 24.5m || 2.0m ||
 * Worldwide || 1.0% || 38.6m || 2.8m ||
 * North America || 0.11% || 1.3m || 27,000 ||
 * Western Europe || 0.3% || 5.8m || 12,000 ||
 * Regional comparisons of HIV in 2005** (Source: UNAIDS, [|2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic] ||

Info on donation http://www.aidforafrica.org/members.php?id=18 Foundation For Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA) http://www.fhssa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1 The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) http://www.tasouganda.org/ The School of Public Health at the University of Limpopo, Medunsa Campus: AIDS, Society and Development South Africa, education program http://www.ngopulse.org/event/aids-society-and-development-south-africa Journalists Against AIDS Nigeria (JAAIDS) http://www.nigeria-aids.org/ AVERT http://www.avert.org/help-avert.htm
 * 1) Make a list of organizations that people can join to get involved in this issue and petitions that people can sign.

Youtubes: HIV/AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa    
 * 1) Make a list of relevant images, youtubes and videos you have collected on the issue

AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aKvO-ugxvG0&hl=zh_CN&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">

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Images:

[|www.gotcents.org/ moreaidsfacts.html]

http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/ilint/mt/iir/online/2007/05/tragedy_and_progress_amid_the.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,grossbild-890153-485715,00.html



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