Author Archives: Charlotte Anne Beers

Every single day over 7,400 people are newly infected with HIV, 5,500 die from aids related illnesses, and every 45 seconds malaria kills a child (Kripke, 2015). These are just a small portion of the myriad of diseases overtaking our world and largely the lower resource countries of the globe. The reality of those livingContinue reading “Combatting HIV, AIDS, and other Diseases”

Around the world over 780 million people live in extreme poverty and have less than $1.90 a day to spend. This is an amount that could never support a healthy lifestyle on any part of the globe. This terrifying statistic is the reality for a large portion of this considered lower resource countries. Without aContinue reading “Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger”

Every single day in the year of 2017 around 810 women died due to entirely preventable causes in relation to childbirth and pregnancy. This adds up to around 295,000 women in total who died during and after their pregnancies due to preventable factors.  However, 94% of all of these types of deaths occurred in lowContinue reading “Maternal Health”

Primary Education is generally defined as kindergarten through sixth grade. Primary education is something that many people across the globe take for granted every day. It may not seem to many to be a massive privilege, but to someone in a lower resource country primary education is usually an entirely foreign concept. About 57 millionContinue reading “Achieve Universal Primary Education”

Global health can seem like a broad topic that could be overlooked but is an issue that is crucial. It affects human beings each and every day. I have personally witnessed the effects that extreme poverty, lack of education, disease, and childhood mortality have on a country and its people. Global health is the studyContinue reading “Why must we Improve the state of Global Health?”