AIDS

HIV-AIDS impacts people in poorer countries than anywhere else in the world. Poverty can create and even enhance the cause and spread of HIV-AIDS. Countries like these can lack in the education of disease like this, and without the proper health care it cannot be treated properly. By fighting poverty in a country you can help relinquish HIV-AIDS as well as many other problems the country might face. Going back to HIV-AIDS, there are two important ways to help: Providing relief to such country like medical supplies, and donating or assisting medical research dedicated to finding better treatment or a cure.   http://aidsresearch.org/ provides information on their research and what a approach they are taking to find a cure. Here are some ways you can participate:

• Sign up for a news letter
• Donate money
• Tell them how this disease has affected you
• Volunteer for a clinical Trial
• Donate a gift to support their research
• Tell your friends
• Sign up to host a fundraiser

On the side of providing relief http://www.developafrica.org/ is focused on establishing meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. They provide job training, business loans, scholarships, books and teaching supplies, the list goes on but I think you get a sense of what they are about. Their website provides many ways to help much similar to the list for aids research. As I mention before, HIV-AIDS and other issues can all be put under the umbrella of poverty. Develop Africa is committed to the development of Africa (hence the name). I will leave you with passage from their website describing their vision.

Vision: Through training, scholarship, investment and partnerships Develop Africa is committed to developing Africa’s people through the promotion of transformational education, resource development, investment training and strategic empowerment. Our premise is based on the notion that in order to change one’s personal, national or organizational status there must necessarily be a “change in the thinking and processing pattern of the mind.”