Maternal health & HIV/AIDS
Problem: In Cambodia there is a goal of reaching 87% of women to use modern birth spacing methods. In 2010 they were at 70%. They are almost to that goal but need to keep up the momentum. Adding on to that, some Cambodia women are still dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications. Cambodia’s maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in Southeast Asia even though they are continually decreasing that number.
Cause: In 2000 89% of women were delivering their babies at home. When they do this, the mothers don’t always have the necessary care to help them to stay healthy. Once again Cambodia has inadequate funding to improve women’s reproductive health by providing them with family planning.
Solution: A solution to aiding in maternal health is to provide postpartum care. This would provide a skilled profession to spend some time with the mother and child and to make sure everything is going all right. This would most likely have to be government funded or really inexpensive so the mothers can afford it. Skilled postpartum caretakers will be able to check on both mother and child to make sure that they are still healthy. A potential problem could be funding if the government does not step in and help. Another great solution in aiding in maternal health is to provide the mothers access to the hospitals. If the women can go to skilled doctors and be in an approved facility that will greatly benefit their health. This would need to be available to every income level; especially the low income families.
Problem: In
Cambodia they have the highest rates of HIV infection in all of Asia. They have
an estimated 75,000 people who are living with AIDS. They do not have the
resources necessary to completely get rid of HIV/AIDS.
Cause: A cause for this high rate in HIV/AIDS is that they have commercial sex workers who are spreading this disease to many other people. Another cause, or contributing factor is that they don’t have many resources to attend to this problem and also they have poor health systems. Without adequate resources they have no way to decrease or completely get rid of HIV/AIDS.
Solution: The level of HIV/AIDS is in the 0.7% range for adults in Cambodia. They just need help to decrease that number even more. The goal was to get it down to 0.4%. I think a way to decrease the amount of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia is through education. This will take several years to find a program that is effective. If children were taught about HIV/Aids while they were young and in school then they would know how to avoid it. The government would provide this funding. A potential problem would be that not all children are going to school. If knowledge about how HIV/AIDS was harmful to your life was only found in the school program then there would be many kids who would still have no idea because they don’t go to school.
Cause: A cause for this high rate in HIV/AIDS is that they have commercial sex workers who are spreading this disease to many other people. Another cause, or contributing factor is that they don’t have many resources to attend to this problem and also they have poor health systems. Without adequate resources they have no way to decrease or completely get rid of HIV/AIDS.
Solution: The level of HIV/AIDS is in the 0.7% range for adults in Cambodia. They just need help to decrease that number even more. The goal was to get it down to 0.4%. I think a way to decrease the amount of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia is through education. This will take several years to find a program that is effective. If children were taught about HIV/Aids while they were young and in school then they would know how to avoid it. The government would provide this funding. A potential problem would be that not all children are going to school. If knowledge about how HIV/AIDS was harmful to your life was only found in the school program then there would be many kids who would still have no idea because they don’t go to school.