HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies: A Comparison Between South Africa and

human immunodeficiency computer virus/AIDS is still a electric current public wellness concern for all countries of the world. Research has helped progress the commandment and treatment of the virus, but some areas of the world still have bar with this public health concern. Out of all developing countries, southwestern Africa has maven of the highest percentages of their population living with human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS while Cuba has one of the last-place percentages of their population living with the virus. In this paper, the public health policies of reciprocal ohm Africa and Cuba regarding treatment, bar and transmission will be discussed and compared.South Africa is one of the countries that are theatrical role of Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS give race in the world. This region contains 10% of the population of the world and has 60% of HIV/AIDS infected people living in this area (Jacobsen, 2008). By 2007, the a mount of people that had died in South Africa that were infected by the virus reached over two million (Gilbert, 2008). Due to the amount of people infected with the virus, the government and medical community of South Africa needed to implement a plan to stilt with the epidemic. The National AIDS Coordinating Committee of South Africa (NACOSA) was formed in 1992 to develop a national plan to deal with the issue (South African Government Information, 2007). The National Strategic Plan (NSP) was demonstrable by the NACOSA review in 1999 which focused on the government improve education, health services, reduction of poverty, the empowerment of women, and the provision of basic services such(prenominal) as shelter, clean water, and sanitation (South African Government Information, 2007, p. 18). In 2007, the South African government developed a National S... ...6Gilbert, L. (2008). Public health and health professionals in the times of HIV/AIDS. South African palingenesis Of Soc iology, 39(2), 301-316. Gorry, C. (2008, July). Cubas HIV/AIDS strategy An integrated, rights-based approach, MEDICC Review International diary of Cuban Health and Medicine. Retrieved from http//www.medicc.org/ns/assets/documents/Cuban%20HIV%20Strategy.pdfJacobsen, K. H. (2008). Introduction to global health. Sudbury, MA Jones and bartlett Publishers.Peltzer, K., Preez, N., Ramlagan, S., & Fomundam, H. (2008). Use of traditional complementary and alternative medicine for HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Public Health, 8255-268. South African Government Information. (2007, March 12). HIV & AIDS and STI strategic plan for South Africa 2007 2011. Retrieved from http//www.info.gov.za/otherdocs/2007/aidsplan2007/index.html