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

human immunodeficiency computer virus/AIDS is still a menses public wellness concern for all countries of the world. Research has helped progress the cultivation and treatment of the virus, but some areas of the world still have encumbrance with this public health concern. Out of all developing countries, mho Africa has star of the highest percentages of their population living with human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS while Cuba has one of the worst percentages of their population living with the virus. In this paper, the public health policies of southerly Africa and Cuba regarding treatment, stripe and transmission will be discussed and compared.South Africa is one of the countries that are small-arm of Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS septic hatful 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 amount 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 hired hand 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 genuine by the NACOSA review in 1999 which focused on the government change education, health services, reduction of poverty, the empowerment of women, and the provision of basic services much(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 refreshen Of Sociology, 39(2), 301-316. Gorry, C. (2008, July). Cubas HIV/AIDS strategy An integrated, rights-based approach, MEDICC Review International ledger 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 pear 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