Future of the Impact
With the African people, diseases like Ebola and Yellow Fever don’t have cures but steps can still be taken to improve their standard of living. To improve the African’s standard of living in the future, education is key. With these diseases, knowing certain tips can save your life. During an outbreak of Ebola, a villager knowing to avoid direct skin to skin contact would save not only their own life but all the people they could potentially spread it to as well. They would also need to know that if they thought there was the slightest possibility that they were infected they would need to get to an isolated hospital right away. Along with that, the government has to make sure that all of their hospital staffs are well educated and trained, even in poor villages. Ebola can be easily confused with other diseases like Marburg virus disease and viral hemorrhagic fevers and the hospital staff has to know the difference between all of them. The only way the African people will know all these different aspects of each disease is by learning more about them and they do want to know how to protect themselves. Getting the information out there about Ebola and Yellow Fever in the forms of brochures, easy interactive websites, and even possibly free classes where native Africans can learn more about how to protect themselves from those and other diseases could save lives.
While education would save a lot of lives, without the resources to back it up they don’t really have anything. When it comes to Yellow Fever, the distribution of insecticide mosquito nets can save lives and getting large amounts out there can prevent the spread of the disease. Modern hospitals with more updated equipment could make the difference between life and death. The large epidemics will take place in the poor poverty stricken villages that don’t have access to the modern hospitals. Setting up programs to build more hospitals, bring more equipment in, get large supplies of medicines, and an overall more sterile environment would benefit the people and at least put them in more comfortable situations as they deal with these diseases. When they are given those kind of resources, they are provided an opportunity to rise above these diseases.
The most beneficial but also risk taking idea leads into the idea of prevention and treatment of Yellow Fever and Ebola. Currently, Ebola doesn’t have a vaccine but there has been some tested on primates that have been proved successful. Yellow Fever on the other hand has a very successful vaccine that lasts for ten years and prevented many from going through the process of this disease. If money can be placed into funds for research for a vaccine for Ebola that would work on humans and it can be done in a timely manner, it could in turn save lives as well. When it comes to treatment, neither of the diseases have treatments or cures. For Ebola there have been some attempts at cures but none have been FDA approved. If more money was added to the research fund possibly a cure could be created and approved. Yellow Fever has no cure as well and if you get it only time will help you or you will die. It’s as plain and simple as that. Research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of Yellow Fever and Ebola could result in new medicines distributed across the continent leading to a brighter future in Africa.
While education would save a lot of lives, without the resources to back it up they don’t really have anything. When it comes to Yellow Fever, the distribution of insecticide mosquito nets can save lives and getting large amounts out there can prevent the spread of the disease. Modern hospitals with more updated equipment could make the difference between life and death. The large epidemics will take place in the poor poverty stricken villages that don’t have access to the modern hospitals. Setting up programs to build more hospitals, bring more equipment in, get large supplies of medicines, and an overall more sterile environment would benefit the people and at least put them in more comfortable situations as they deal with these diseases. When they are given those kind of resources, they are provided an opportunity to rise above these diseases.
The most beneficial but also risk taking idea leads into the idea of prevention and treatment of Yellow Fever and Ebola. Currently, Ebola doesn’t have a vaccine but there has been some tested on primates that have been proved successful. Yellow Fever on the other hand has a very successful vaccine that lasts for ten years and prevented many from going through the process of this disease. If money can be placed into funds for research for a vaccine for Ebola that would work on humans and it can be done in a timely manner, it could in turn save lives as well. When it comes to treatment, neither of the diseases have treatments or cures. For Ebola there have been some attempts at cures but none have been FDA approved. If more money was added to the research fund possibly a cure could be created and approved. Yellow Fever has no cure as well and if you get it only time will help you or you will die. It’s as plain and simple as that. Research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of Yellow Fever and Ebola could result in new medicines distributed across the continent leading to a brighter future in Africa.