Maternal Health and hiv/aids
Maternal Health: Peru has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the Americas, despite being a middle-income country.
Hundreds of poor, rural, and indigenous pregnant women in Peru are dying because they are effectively being denied the same health services other women in the country receive.
Cause: Pregnant women in Peru die because they face barriers, including lack of access to emergency obstetric care, unavailability of information on maternal health, and lack of health staff who can speak indigenous languages. Nearly 60% of the communities covered by the census did not have access to a health facility
Solution: Through the Geographic perspective I think what needs to be done is putting more health facilities in different areas of Peru. We need to put health facilities in areas where there are people. Closer to everyone even in the little towns. Example of what I'm thinking of what we can do is here in rexburg I know of a few doctors that don't live here but they travel and take care of what they need to do. I'm thinking we do the same thing with doctors in Peru. You place facilities in different areas in Peru and the Doctors can come to the small towns as well. It would help face some of the barrier like having doctors there to give info about maternal health, have more doctors and staff that work there that speak the language. I think that this is some to help get started and that there are multiple doctors that come in different days to help with the emergencies.
HIV/Aids: UNAIDS estimates that around 74,000 people are living with HIV in Peru, of which approximately half became infected before the age of 20. This situation stresses the need to raise awareness on HIV and its modes of transmission among teenagers There is a high incidence of young people in Peru between the ages of 20 and 29 years with HIV/AIDS
Cause: According to the DHS 2004-2006, 25% of young women between 15-19 years only know that HIV/AIDS exists, but are unaware of how to prevent infection. Almost 10% of this same population say they have never heard of HIV/AIDS
Solution In my disciplines perspective I am a health science major with an emphasis on health promotions. Basically what we do is promote health. So what I believe is needed to be done to help solve this problem is seeing that the cause is lack of knowledge is teaching them. I believe what we need to do is create a program where we will have some people go to Peru and teach the teachers about health. We should do it like how we have taught health class here in America. I think it is important to teach about safe sex and what can come from having sex. I think it is important to teach what HIV and AIDS are and what it can do. I think that we should teach the teachers about HIV and AIDS and then tell them to teach it unto their students in schools.
Hundreds of poor, rural, and indigenous pregnant women in Peru are dying because they are effectively being denied the same health services other women in the country receive.
Cause: Pregnant women in Peru die because they face barriers, including lack of access to emergency obstetric care, unavailability of information on maternal health, and lack of health staff who can speak indigenous languages. Nearly 60% of the communities covered by the census did not have access to a health facility
Solution: Through the Geographic perspective I think what needs to be done is putting more health facilities in different areas of Peru. We need to put health facilities in areas where there are people. Closer to everyone even in the little towns. Example of what I'm thinking of what we can do is here in rexburg I know of a few doctors that don't live here but they travel and take care of what they need to do. I'm thinking we do the same thing with doctors in Peru. You place facilities in different areas in Peru and the Doctors can come to the small towns as well. It would help face some of the barrier like having doctors there to give info about maternal health, have more doctors and staff that work there that speak the language. I think that this is some to help get started and that there are multiple doctors that come in different days to help with the emergencies.
HIV/Aids: UNAIDS estimates that around 74,000 people are living with HIV in Peru, of which approximately half became infected before the age of 20. This situation stresses the need to raise awareness on HIV and its modes of transmission among teenagers There is a high incidence of young people in Peru between the ages of 20 and 29 years with HIV/AIDS
Cause: According to the DHS 2004-2006, 25% of young women between 15-19 years only know that HIV/AIDS exists, but are unaware of how to prevent infection. Almost 10% of this same population say they have never heard of HIV/AIDS
Solution In my disciplines perspective I am a health science major with an emphasis on health promotions. Basically what we do is promote health. So what I believe is needed to be done to help solve this problem is seeing that the cause is lack of knowledge is teaching them. I believe what we need to do is create a program where we will have some people go to Peru and teach the teachers about health. We should do it like how we have taught health class here in America. I think it is important to teach about safe sex and what can come from having sex. I think it is important to teach what HIV and AIDS are and what it can do. I think that we should teach the teachers about HIV and AIDS and then tell them to teach it unto their students in schools.