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The new website design is almost complete. Now we need assistance with revisions to the website content. One page on the website has been devoted to answering Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQ's. For this task, we are looking for someone who can help research and write concise, detailed and thorough responses to the questions listed. Current questions to be answered are;
1. Why do African girls drop out of school at a higher rate than boys? Are they forced to drop out of school?
2. What are the symptoms of Malaria?
3. What can be done to prevent HIV/AIDs and to keep it from spreading?
4. How can basic hygiene be best promoted at home?
5. I am expecting a baby. What kind of routine medical care do I need?
Hi Jennifer,
I can take on the responsibility of finding answers to the questions you have mentioned. I will start looking for available materials on the Internet.
Could you please let me know exactly when you need this information? A clear dead-line will work better for me since it helps me plan this activity as well as others :)
Thanks
Ruxandra
Hi Ruxandra-
Thank you for agreeing to help work on this. The deadline I put on this task is 3/5/08. Deadlines are always located under task information in the right hand column. If you need more time than that, please let me know. We'd like to get this accomplished as soon as possible, so if you get it done sooner that's great too.
Jennifer
hi everyone
even i want to help in this project.
kindly guide me how i can be useful
thx
Welcome Siya! I am so excited you've joined our project. I would be very interested in your help listing basic dental equipment the hospital may need to provide dental services. Everyone-Siya is a dentist, so I am very happy to have someone with her expertise joining us!
Make sure you see your private messages-I left you a message there as well (just in case you don't receive notification of it).
Ruxandra-if Siya can help you in any way with the FAQ's please let her know-perhaps you can split up the questions?
Jennifer
1. Why do African girls drop out of school at a higher rate than boys? Are they forced to drop out of school?
=> Because they are said to be of backward class and something has to be done with this.
2. What are the symptoms of Malaria?
=>The symptons are anapholos female mosquitoes.
3. What can be done to prevent HIV/AIDs and to keep it from spreading?
=>Stop using used syringes and blades.
4. How can basic hygiene be best promoted at home?
=>by eating home maid food.
5. I am expecting a baby. What kind of routine medical care do I need?
=>It depends on GOD. No need to worry
=>It depends on GOD. No need to worry
Hello everyone,
Very sorry for the long replies.I'm out of Poland and constantly travelling and thus only now I have constant access to the Internet.
Yes spliting up the questions is a good idea. I have been working on them and I will post the results in a few days for additional comments.
The materials I have found are quite a lot and I'm worried that the answers might turn out to be quite long. We will see depending of course on how much information can be put on the site so as not to become too much and too boring.
I would need help with questions numbers 1 and 5. For the rest everything is OK and I should be able to post them soon.
Thanks,
Ruxandra
Hello everyone,
I will put in the post the information for two of the FAQs (no.2&3). I have one question for Jennifer about FAQ no. 4: are you interested in personal hygiene, food preparation hygiene or both?
What is malaria and what are its symptoms?
Malaria is an infectious disease. It’s caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. This parasite infects the red cells of the blood.
Malaria is transmitted through the bite of a particular kind of mosquito called Anopheles. This is found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical areas. Travelling in the areas where this mosquito lives increases the risk of catching the disease.
• Malaria occurs in attacks which last from 4 to 6 hours;
• The symptoms are: shaking chills, high fever and sweating as well as fatigue, headache, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, abdominal cramps, dry cough, muscle or joint pain, back ache;
• The attacks appear every other day or every third day;
• Some people may also experience: vomiting, diarrhea, coughing and yellowing (jaundice) of the skin and whites of the eyes.
For further information you can check the following web sites:
http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/
http://www.medicinenet.com/malaria/article.htm
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/347/main.html
http://www.patienthealthinternational.com/article/501638.aspxhttp://www....
What can be done to prevent HIV/AIDS and to keep it from spreading?
HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus – is a retrovirus which infects the cells of the human immune system. This means that as the disease progresses the immune system is affected and is no longer able to function properly. As a result it leaves the person susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors.
The HIV – virus – is transmitted through the direct contact with the bodily fluid of a person already infected with it, meaning blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid and breast milk.
The ways in which one can get the disease include anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchanges between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
General preventive methods:
1. Protection during sexual intercourse either by using male or by using female condoms;
2. Reducing the risk of exposure to contaminated blood by wearing gloves (made of latex), masks, protective eyeware or shields, and gowns or aprons;
3. Thoroughly washing your skin immediately after entering in contact with infected blood or other bodily fluids can reduce the risk of infection;
4. Care must be applied when using or handling sharp objects such as needles, scalpels or glass which are contaminated in order not to enjure ourselves;
5. HIV infected mothers should avoid breastfeeding;
6. Attention should be paid to the use of needles in medical facilities as well as between people. These should always be sealed and used only once!
For further information you can check the following web sites:
http://www.who.int/topics/hiv_aids/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Prevention
http://www.unaids.org/en/
I will attach the document to the Wiki. Please, feel free to comment and if I have missed something or should reformat let me know.
Jennifer should I proceed looking for info for the other two questions?
Thank you and have a nice night,
Ruxandra
Answer 1:
In developing countries teachers are mostly male. They perceive girls as less intelligent. They give boys more attention. Boys have more opportunity to talk and participate. Girls are expected to be obedient—to be quiet and sit at the back of the classroom. Plus, girls are often expected to take care of their siblings and cook and help their mothers at home.
In some countries, girls are even given janitorial work while in school, while boys play and study.
Answer 2:
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, nausea, flu-like symptoms, headache, and vomiting, and usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs.
Answer 3:
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection. Most people get the virus by having sex with an infected person, sharing a needle, shooting drugs, with someone who is infected, being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected person.
The most effective to protect yourself from HIV transmission are to:
-Abstain from sex
-Be faithful to you partner if you are having sex
-Condoms – use condoms if you are having sex.
New ways of prevention are: Male Circumcision, Using Microbicides,HIV Vaccines, Diaphragms and Other Cervical Barriers, HIV 'Prevention Pills' , Herpes Treatment.
Other ways to protect yourself is to:
-Know the HIV-status of your partner
-Do not inject illicit drugs
-If you do inject drugs, never share needles or other equipment and use only clean needles and equipment
-Make getting an HIV test part of your regular medical checkup.
http://www.webmd.com/news/20060815/6-ways-prevent-aids
The best prevention for malaria is sleep under the treated mosquito nets that are available now in most countries. Do not use those that are treated with DDT. Dangerous but the others are safe.
Just read of a man who has slept under one for six years and not one time has he had malaria. They work!
Thank you Ken-we'll make sure this gets into the FAQ answers for the website. 6 years is a long time with no malaria :) That's great. It's sad to me that something so simple can provide such a great solution and yet isn't readily available to everyone who needs one.
YEs,
It is unfortunate that something so simple can still not be readily available for everyone.
A couple of communities are running projects trying to source nets. We have one company in the US offering a lot of nets but we need to think of ways of sending them over to the different projects. SO if someone knows a way it would be great to hear more about it
Raul
Hi Ken
Just a small clarification,is it that mosquitoes bite only at night and not in the day time? As you said we do have solution to prevent night bites but what can be done for day time?
Ange
I agree with you.yet I believe science has done alot in giving direction in human character to avoid contacting some diseases .how to you think that on top all the care we offer to our selves we can also believe God to prevent such infections by faith.
wasike
Hi Wasike-great to see you here in our village.
Jennifer