For my research project this semester, I would like to focus on Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia and their government’s response to the increasing cases of HIV/Aids across the region. For this project, I feel it would be useful to create a policy recommendation that’s outlines the problems with HIV/Aids in Africa and hopefully create a solution to decrease the cases to this plaguing issue. My proposed solution to decrease the rising cases of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa would be to devote more financial resources to educational programs and build health clinics across South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, which will encourage testing. The following question, “Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa, …show more content…
It has allowed for the real truth to come out about South Africa’s failed policies on Aid prevention. This article will be great for my project because it goes into great detail about the President of South Africa and its government lying to citizens telling them that Aids is not something to be worried about. This article will work greatly into my problem section in my paper.
Rosenberg, T. (2005). AIDS. Foreign Policy, (147), 22-27. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224036717?accountid=28349 o This article relayed a message of failure by governments across the continent and around the world. Pouring money into this epidemic has caused more harm than good in fighting HIV/Aids. It focuses on lies created by the governments that would prevent the number of cases decreasing. This article is good for my project because it will strengthen my proposed solution that money will not end this problem.
Smith, E. A., Miller, J. A., Newsome, V., Sofolahan, Y. A., & Airhihenbuwa, C. O. (2014). Measuring HIV and AIDS-related Stigma across South Africa: A Versatile and Multidimensional Scale. Health Education & Behavior: The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 41(4),
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This study investigates whether or not fear can have an effect on people’s social behavior. To help in the study they focus on different races and culture to strengthen their study. This article will help me in my research by giving another piece of evidence to compare to my solution. This article also has key points throughout that will allow me to strengthen my argument that it will take more than just threats to make a true change to the Aids epidemic in