The Malaria Crisis

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how malaria is one of the major public health challenges in some of the poorest countries around the world. The paper looks at the work of global organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in combating this disease and shows how these efforts are hugely insufficient. The paper contends that because this misfortune is not seen and felt on a personal level, civilized society has chosen to ignore it. The paper appends a large amount of source material to the paper.

From the Paper:

"Malaria is one of the major public health challenges in some of the poorest countries around the world. Malaria is a huge problem to underprivileged countries that cannot afford to maintain proper health care standards such as sanitary water, food, medicine and sanitation. Because of this, health care prevention suffers and inhabitants of these cultures are largely at risk for developing disease and dying because they do not have the appropriate resources to combat illness."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Polgreen, Linda . "As Darfur War Wages on, Disease and Hunger Kill". NY Times. July 27, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/world/africa/31dar f ur.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Stefani, L.A. (2008). Global Communication: Interaction Within The Cultural Merge (3rd Ed.). Ready or Not Press, NV.
• Venamen, Anne. "Unicef- Health- Malaria". UNICEF. July 27, 2008 <http://www.unicef.org/health/index_malaria.html>.
• Unknown, Contributors. "World Health Organization- Malaria". WHO. July 27, 2008 <http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/index.html>.

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