According to the World Health Organization, 1.37 million adults and 140,000 kids have been killed in the past year and it has infected more than 1 million kids due to Tuberculosis. According to the U.S. researchers, around 32,000 kids catch Tuberculosis every year. The TB Alliance campaign group mentioned that the lack of market agenda has hurt the development of drugs to cure children. Tuberculosis is usually caught with bacteria and could be spread through sneezing and coughing. More individuals die from Tuberculosis than individuals die from AIDS/HIV. Although many times tuberculosis occurs mostly in southeast Asia, Africa has the biggest proportion for its population and has the highest rate of 400,000 brand new cases every year. Since they come up with fruit flavored drugs, they believe that this will reduce the risks and kids are more likely to survive tuberculosis in the coming year. A lot of the times kids don’t end up taking all the medicine every day for six months because of the bitterness and the pills are too large for young kids to take that they would have to cut them in half for easier to take. When the treatments are not completed then they would have to restart from the beginning because they would fall sick again. This new treatment will be a syrup that will be easier to take and taste better and essentially easier for the parents to make sure the kid will continually follow and finish the treatment. Link
Questions for Final:
- What were some ideological commitment to modernization?
- What were some pros and cons to colonization?
- What were the different impacts of colonization in Africa from the British, French and Portuguese?
- How did the Africans feel about colonization?
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