Thursday 6 March 2008

Proposal 1. Malaria


Malaria affects more people that ever before and it is endemic to 106 nations. It may not seem that way from Western countries, where malaria is sometimes thought of as a problem that has mostly been solved like smallpox or polio. Nearly half a billion people get malaria each year and more that a million die, most of them under age five and the vast majority living in Africa, Asia and South America. After decades of neglect, the world is renewing its fight against the disease. Only in the past few years has malaria captured the full attention of aid agencies and donors.
From a visual point of view the subject could be analyze from many different angles. Showing images of sick people and foreign doctors in hospitals is probably the most obvious approach. More in depth research could show factories in developing countries producing mosquito nets, parents waiting in flooded streets to find out whether their children have malaria, actors performing in a educational drama or indigenous people visiting traditional healers to relieve the symptoms.

3 comments:

jonowales said...

i don't know if you had heard Rafael, but they have now detected malaria in mosquitos in southern england last year - global warming has led to their migration north through Europe......and now to the UK!

antrim said...

so, you can have a health thread to the overall Global Warming theme...Global Warming first, then talk about health effects, effects on the water, air; new legislation; new businesses; new life styles...

willy said...

Seeing him so, just after decades of neglect, the world is renewing its fight against the disease that attacks us every day, without respite in these battles have left diseases like impotence, influeza, etc, yet has come to light as his cures for impotence sildenafil and many more for different diseases ....