Blog #5

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/27/news/international/Greece_economy.cnnw/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1&hpt=wo_c2

According to this article, Greece is fighting its way against poverty. The prime minister gives a speech saying they will do whatever it takes to get Greece back on its feet.  The prime minister from Greece is trying to get Europe to expand its funds from the European Financial Stability Facility in order to help stabilize them. Europe support groups have funded Greece a lot of money but now internationals are saying that Greece should take care of the rest of the funding in order to help them stabilize themselves. Europe does not want to give Greece any more money because they have already gave so much. The problem is that if Greece cannot stabilize themselves and end their poverty, they will have to end the euro in Greece.

Since poverty is a central issue in the world, Greece needs to end their poverty now. If Greece cannot fix their problem and they fall deeper into poverty then they can be stuck in a very dangerous position. Poverty leads to starvation and disease. If Greece drops to the level where they fall deeply into poverty, they will then have high death and disease rates. AIDS will spread rapidly though their country because they will not have medicine to care it.  Along with disease, the country will not be able to afford food or water for the citizens. With no clean water people will die quickly.  Besides the water problem, with no food to offer to citizens, people will be dying daily from starvation. The worse part of all is if Greece cannot keep themselves at a constant, steady level then they will slowly rip apart and eventually break off into a country they never want to become.

Blog #4

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/19/u-n-unlikely-to-sway-poorer-nations-on-obesity-diabetes/?iref=allsearch


According to this article, billions of people are dying due to obesity and diabetes. In the top 10 developed countries in the world, more people are dying from being overweight then underweight. Obesity is being found in the middle and upper classes. The UN decided something needs to be done to stop this and is meeting to talk over this health issue. The only other time the UN has had a meeting over a health issue was in 2001 on AIDS. Since the death rate for obese people is so high, it leaves the UN with no other options.

I think this article is very interesting because just last week I did my article on poverty and how every three seconds someone dies because of starvation. I think it is really weird and messed up that half of this world is dying from starvation and half is dying from obesity. Something needs to be done. The food amounts in this world need to change and find a constant level.

Blog #3 Poverty

http://www.poverty.com/internationalaid.html

According to this article all deaths due to disease and starvation can be stopped. In order to stop poverty, it will cost $195 billion dollars a year. The 22 wealthiest countries vowed to help. For every $100 made in each country, 0.7% would be donated to help poverty. The problem with this is that only five of the countries reached the goal. 11 of the countries are scheduled to meet it in the next 4 years, but 6 of the countries are nowhere scheduled to meet the goal. One of the countries that are not scheduled to meet the goal is the United States. I know people will jump to say why the United States should donate money when we need to help our country out first. What people don't see is that we as a country have several people in poverty and will be helping them do so. What they also don't see is that just because our country is in debt, doesn't mean that we have numerous wealthy people in this country that can help out. It sickens me that there are people in this world that have so much money and so much food, but people die every day because they don't.

Blog #2

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/09/09/guatemala.violence/index.html?iref=allsearch

According to this article, Guatemala is becoming one of the most dangerous countries out there. As their crime rate continues to stay high, they are slowing becoming a failed state. Not only is it awful to see a country fail so badly, but it's even worse that it is occurring now in this generation. We are supposed to be improving in the world and not declining. Since 2009, there have been 14 million deaths in Guatemala due to violent crimes. That is way too high of a number and should not be allowed at all. It is said that in Guatemala 96% of the crimes go unpunished. If 96% of the crimes go unpunished, that leaves only 4% that are punishable. That is a ridiculous amount and needs to change soon. If the problem does not get fixed in Guatemala not only will it lead to worse situations in their own country, but it will have a huge impact on the world. It sickens me that in today's society things like this still happen. The main reason the crime rate is going up so high is because of Mexican drug trafficking. If countries such as Mexico and Guatemala are so strongly impacted by drug trafficking, the United States is next. Something needs to be done to help international violence because it is a hazard to our health.

First article

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/americas/31syphilis.html?scp=3&sq=international%20health&st=cse
According to this article, just recently Americans found out about the damage our country use to uphold in Guatamalan Bay.  Not only was it abusive, but it was a concern to international health. Our country use to test the prisoners with the medicines we were making. When penicillen was created, prisoners were harmed in many ways. Our country forced people who were infected with syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, to sleep with the prisoners of Guantamalan. If the prisoners refused, they would spread syphilis into scars on their bodies. Once the prisoners were infected with syphlisis, they were then treated with penicillen. Many of the prisoners died because the penicillen did not work. This problem is an international concern. It is awful to thing that this happened in America and is just now being released to the public.