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| village in Equitorial Guinea |
$617.40 from one company and
$75 from another
What will that give me?! All the basic medications and supplies to get things going. Prior to coming to Honduras, I went to hospitals that donated medical supplies to me, I put on vitamin/over-the-counter medication drives at various churches, and my own home church put on a "baby-shower" for me and brought me in all sorts of infant supplies. I'm in a different situation right now as I'm not in the States, and everything that I collected for 2 years prior to leaving for Honduras, and all the medication/supplies I collected over the last 8 years while in Honduras, I am leaving behind. So I need YOUR help! Let's see what I can raise in the next month to go toward the purchase of the medications and supplies.
It's SUPER easy to give - just click HERE and your tax-free donation will go toward the purchase of supplies and medication. Send me a quick e-mail at maddysmother@yahoo.com to let me know the donation is toward this drive, and together we can make this happen!
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| Baby with malaria |
The Infant mortality rate
U.S. – 5.87 / 1,000 live births
Honduras – 18.18 / 1,000 live births
Equitorial Guinea 69.17 / 1,000 live births
Life Expectancy at birth
U.S. - 79.68
Honduras – 71.0
Equitorial Guinea – 63.85
Healthy Life Expectancy
U.S. - 69.3
Honduras – 63.7
Equitorial Guinea – 47.4
Health Expenditures
U.S. – 17.1% of GDP
EG – 3.5%
Major infections in EG:
Bacterial/protozoal diarrhea
Hepatitis A
Typhoid fever
Malaria and dengue fever
Top Causes of Death in The U.S.
1. Coronary heart disease
2. Alzheimers/dementia
3. Lung Cancer
4. Lung Disease
5. Stroke
6. Diabetes
7. Hypertension
8. Colon-rectal cancer
9. Kidney disease
1 10.
Influenza/pneumonia
U.S. death rate to AIDS 2.2/100,000 and of the reporting
countries, ranks 107th (of 172) of deaths related to AIDS
Top causes of Death in Equitorial Guinea
1.
HIV/AIDS
2.
Influenza/pneumonia
3.
Diarrhoeal disease (i.e. cholera)
4.
Malaria
5.
Coronary heart disease
6.
Stroke
7.
Low birth rate
8.
Other injuries
9.
Birth trauma
10.
Malnutrition
Equitorial Guinea death rate to aids is 202.13/100,000 and
of the reporting countries, ranks the 13th highest in the world of
deaths related to AIDS
Sleeping sickness
yaws, a syphilis like infection, measles, tetanus (tetanus
infections in newborns accounts for about half of tetanus-related deaths in
developing countries) and low birth weights, while all over Equatorial Guinea,
during the rainy season, typhoid, spread through unclean and contaminated
water, and hepatic amebiasis also become more prevalent (24).
It does not help that the majority Fang population is also
traditionally a polygamous group and is also strongly against condoms and other
forms of contraceptives.
Clean drinking water is often very important in order to
maintain a healthy life. In urban areas throughout Equatorial Guinea unsanitary
communal taps lead to the spread of diseases including malaria, worms, and
gastrointestinal diseases
Clean drinking water has also been identified as one of the
main factors leading to poor health and a rise in the number of cases of
diseases like tetanus, typhoid and hepatic amebiasis. These are all mostly
spread through unsanitary living conditions and dirty or contaminated water.
The U.N. has even recognized the lack of doctors in Africa
as one of the worst problems affecting health issues throughout the continent
and gone as far too publicly call the problem a "crisis of health
man-power" (28). The World Health Organization has even stated that
medical facilities in Africa in general were, "barely able to function for
lack of qualified, motivated doctors, nurses and other health workers"
Sources:
24) Sundiata, Ibrahim K. Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism,
State Terror, and the Search
for Stability. Westview Press: Boulder, 1990.
for Stability. Westview Press: Boulder, 1990.
Other links:
CIA World Fact book (http://www.cia.gov/factbook/equatorial_guinea.html)
U.S. Department of State (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8367.htm)
Human Development Index (http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/cty_f_GNQ.html)
All Africa (http://www.allafrica.com)
Amnesty International (http://web.amnesty.org)
Basic Information (http://www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea)
World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/gq.html)
International Monetary Fund (http://www.imf.org)
U.N. Development Program (http://www.undp.org)
Country Profile (http://us-africa.tripod.com/eqguinea.html)
