For there to be high levels of productivity and income, it is necessary to ensure the essencial conditions for a basic public health service.


In the case of Empada village, the most common diseases are HIV/AIDS and Malaria.


The majority of the population who is affected by these diseases is within the productivity age. Consequently, there has been a decrease in productity and, therefore, a decrease in the people’s income.

GOAL #6:
Combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases

  1. Bullet Subsaharian Africa is still the most inflicted region: “with only 10% of the world’s population, it represents 64% and 90% of all the people and children infected with HIV, respectively”.

  2. Bullet The number of women affected with the HIV virus has been increasing due to their vulnerable health.

  1. Bullet Better living conditions (MDG 1, 2, 3).


  1. Bullet Better higiene conditions.


  1. Bullet More information given to the population.


  1. Bullet Forgiveness of the debt in order to have resources to be used in prevention and treatment strategies of various diseases.

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  1. Bullet MDG’s fact sheet (english)

  2. Bullet HIV/AIDS (english)           

  3. Bullet Acess to essential medicine (english)

  4. Bullet Combating AIDS in developing countries (english)

  5. Bullet Prevalence of HIV/AIDS map (english)

  6. Bullet Prevalence of Tuberculosis map (english)

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