Exodus of African Crisis

Africa has had it hard and one would describe this as a hurricane that swiped’ the continent to a certain degree. It has not been easy for the world to control this hurricane instantly and has therefore taken its own course to swipe, destroy the human nature.

If you consider the issues of HIV & AIDS as well as the issue of Ebola in the African continent, you will really understand that these are the African exodus that has traumatized the human nature though the other parts of the globe have been affected.

The first west scenario was considered to be the HIV and AIDS epidemic which has affected the world economically, socially and whatever that you can think of. This has really engaged and drained the resources that were not budgeted for to be channeled to a different direction hence dragging for sometimes. This affected the effectiveness and efficiency of skilled manpower towards service provision as it rapidly spread across the continent.

Countries come up with measures to combat and mitigate the epidemic but still need global support hence provision of skilled manpower, other resources including medication more especially Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).

In most cases this impacted negatively on the new generation being children across ages. They were left as orphans, children in need of care, needy children and the most west scenario being their vulnerability towards their way of living hence affecting their educational standard, general behavior and lack of parental care, love and support. There are those in the remotest rural areas and hard to reach areas left with an old granny’s as care givers who do not have access to any resources at times including access to health care services. This therefore becomes crisis which affects their general behavior and their livelihoods.

This has also resulted with HIV positive children whom disclosure has been an issue of concern to their caregivers or even their biological parents if still alive. The issue of concern has been when and how should the disclosure been done. At which stage should it be? As early as pre- school at five or when exactly since when they grow up without knowing their HIV sero status they do not adhere to treatment hence leading to drug resistance. At teenage and adolescent stage they inquire very much about the issue of taking drugs and why them since they also want to live drugs free life hence intentions of having their own families.However this has impacted negatively on the global goal of having zero HIV infection by 2016. My concern is will the world be able to reach its goal of zero infections by 2016 since we are just around the corner? Are we saying that we will achieve this if disclosure is not handled accordingly? What measures should be put on place to cub and mitigate this situation including drug resistance and behavioural change, and what should be the way-ford including the remotest and the hard to reach areas where TB and HIV co-infection issues have increased.