Healthcare in Africa

Think you know Africa? Take another look. New healthcare problems are on the rise, though old issues still exist. How can we improve healthcare in Africa?

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[ekonecny]

Summary: Please pump more money into Africa, so that we can pump it out through their meds. You know we'll be doing it anyway, the ad's just adding insult to injury. ...and I love the uploader approval of comments. Did you bully Youtube into it or is that a paid feature?

[Novartis]

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[Toro Adeyemi]

I disagree with this comment and I really like this video.

[RediculazZ]

What happened to the EMF researches ?

[ekonecny]

Well at least your answer I can respect.

[Brian Dickerson]

Interestingly, there is often a correlation between the level of education a country achieves and their national birth rate. Education often equates to productivity, later marriage and child bearing, and a lower number of children per family. Sex ed isn't so much the issue as is broad and in-depth knowledge which leads to economic development beyond the basic subsistence/agricultural family. Basic health care is a foundational underpinning for such progress.

[Brian Dickerson]

Is there anything? Thousands of things, easy to hard, that you and anyone else can do to make a difference. Here are some ideas.... texasex.org/Home/what-can-you-­do-that-helps

[Brian Dickerson]

It's been my good fortune to work in a few African countries. These are folks just like us; moms and dads trying to survive and to make a better future for their children. Among the difficulties they face, basic healthcare is extraordinarily powerful and deserves our attention and assistance.

If you have it within your power to save the life of another but choose not to, is that nobility? Whether it is here or there, the question remains, does it not?

[MCookieIsTooBoss4You]

@SorinScutea

It's because they need children to make there house,work in the farm,go gather food,go walk for water,ETC.

[candyland9865]

Africa isn't a state or a country. IT'S A CONTINENT! It's HUGE but no one really talks about it.

[fmaoncrack]

lets donate to africans while they are killing people just for being white over there

[jmr1068204]

Africa's double burden? I can explain the whole burden. For one thing, AIDS. They're teaching their kids that having sex with a virgin cures them of AIDS, thus spreading it. On top of that, the parents see flies eating out of their kid's mouths and their kids are skeletons. Yet what do they do? Keep having more, of course. This is Africa's biggest problem. More people than they can feed and a greedy government that does nothing for the people. Nigeria is one of the biggest scam cities.