You must pick up a Global Health Communicable or incommunicable disease and inve

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You must pick up a Global Health Communicable or incommunicable disease and investigate the following:

1. What is or was the cause and how wide spread the disease is or was?

2. What Intergovernmental (IGO) and nongovernmental (NGO) organizations were involved in addressing the disease?

3. What was the role of the governments of the affected countries in addressing the disease?

4. How it was addressed? Where the involved institutions successful in effectively addressing the problem?

5. How it was financed?

6. Were the effected population received needed care and attention?

7. What are your assessments of the efforts for the eradication or containment of the disease? What were the shortcomings and how do you solve the problem differently?

Explanation / Answer

Disease – Ebola

Ebola outbreak in Western Africa was caused due to wild animals. The outbreak was from December 2013 to January 2016 with 28657 cases and 11325 deaths reported.

The Governments of Nigeria, Zimbabwe and other Sub-Saharan countries were involved in handling the outbreak.

The Government opened up many facility centers where the disease were treated and successfully eradicated. Government also helped in educating and spreading awareness of the symptoms of the disease among the people.

At first, it had an outburst as no one knew about the cure or the symptoms of the disease, however, gradually it came under control.

The World Health Organization financed it with several other African countries coming to the aid of the affected countries.

As discussed above gradually it came under control with proper medications and early detection.

It could not have been handled differently as it was a sudden outburst that no one knew about.

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