Lesotho

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 478.

Solutions

· Providing free condoms and educating people about how to use them correctly.

· Educating about what HIV is and explaining how the spread can be reduced and stopped. Because many people in rural Africa may be illiterate education might have to be done through posters or theatre (drama).

· Test more people to find out who is infected.

· Legalise prostitution to encourage more prostitutes to be testedand hopefully reduce the spread of HIV

· Anti-retroviral drugs can be sold cheaper so that more people have access to them

· Hopefully, scientists will eventually find a cure for HIV so that it can be eliminated.

· Encouraging no sex before marriage and trying to reduce the number of peoples sexual partners.

· Try and reduce the stigma of HIV and AIDS so more people talk about it and are happy to be tested.

Lesotho is a landlocked country situated inside South Africa. It has a population of only 1.8 million. It is estimated that over 20% of Lesotho adults population is infected with HIV or AIDS. In reality the figure might be much higher because many adults have not been tested.

In Lesotho one innovative to reduce infection rates is to test every adult. 7,500 health care workers have been employed to test every person. They are even going door to door with testing kits.

Lesotho is now also going to benefit from an agreement made by drugs companies to lower their prices. In the future anti-retroviral drugs are going to be 50% cheaper and HIV tests 30% cheaper.

Migration

· Migration: The movement from one location to another location.

· Internal Migration: Migration within a country e.g. Santa Ana to San Salvador or Birmingham to London

· Rural-urban migration: This is a type of internal migration. It is the movement of people from rural areas (the countryside) to urban areas (towns and cities)

· International Migration: Migration between countries e.g. El Salvador to US.

· Temporary Migration: Migration for a limited period, this might only be for a few weeks or even several years.

· Permanent Migration: Migration with the intention of staying forever.

· Forced Migration: When people are forced to migrate, often because their life is in danger.

· Voluntary Migration: When people freely choose to migrate e.g. for better weather or better universities.

· Economic Migration: Migration for work e.g. better salary or promotion

· Seasonal Migration: Migration just for a particular season e.g. the ski season or the harvesting season

· Commuting: Movement from home to workplace and vice versa.