UKIMWI katika Karibi
Karibi ni eneo la pili baada ya Afrika Kusini kwa Sahara kuathirika zaidi ulimwenguni kwa viwango vya maambukizi ya Virusi vya UKIMWI. [1] Kulingana na takwimu ya 2009, karibu asilimia 1.0 ya watu wazima (watu 240,000) wanaishi na ugonjwa huo. [2] Sababu zinazoathiri janga hili ni pamoja na umasikini na unyanyapaa. Matukio ya VVU katika Karibi yalipungua kwa 49% kati ya 2001 na 2012.
Maelezo
[hariri | hariri chanzo]Ingawa asili halisi ya ugonjwa huu haijulikani, janga la VVU katika Karibi lilianza miaka ya 1970. Kesi ya kwanza ya UKIMWI iliyoripotiwa ilitokea Jamaika mnamo mwaka 1982, ikifuatiwa na visa nane kati ya wanaume mashoga huko Trinidad na Tobago. Katika siku za mwanzo za janga hilo, wanaume wengi waliathirika kuliko wanawake. [3]
Changamoto
[hariri | hariri chanzo]Changamoto kadhaa zilizuia majibu ya mgogoro wa VVU.
Kwanza, nchi nyingi zina uwezo dhaifu wa kitaifa kulingana na uwezo wao wa kudhibiti na kushughulikia janga hilo. [4][5][6] [7] Bila habari muhimu na thabiti, inabaki kuwa ngumu kushughulikia kabisa mahitaji haya.
Mwishowe, inabaki kuwa ngumu kutekeleza kikamilifu hatua za kupambana na VVU katika maeneo kadhaa, na utafiti wa kina unahitajika kuelewa jinsi hatua hizi zinavyofanya kazi kusaidia watu wenye VVU. [1]
Marejeo
[hariri | hariri chanzo]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The HIV Pandemic: Local and Global Implications, edited by Eduard J. Beck, Nicholas Mays, Alan W. Whiteside, and Jose M. Zuniga, Oxford University Press, 2007
- ↑ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4cfca9c62.html
- ↑ http://caribbean.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0043-31442008000300008&lng=en
- ↑ http://caribbean.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0043-31442008000300008&lng=en
- ↑ Smith R. Encyclopedia Of AIDS : A Social, Political, Cultural, And Scientific Record Of The HIV Epidemic [e-book]. Fitzroy Dearborn; 1998. Available from: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), Ipswich, MA. Accessed 15 November 2012.
- ↑ The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic, edited by Glenford Deroy Howe and Alan Gregor Cobley, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, 2000, page 2
- ↑ The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic, edited by Glenford Deroy Howe and Alan Gregor Cobley, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, 2000, page 2