The presentations were real eye openers. On HIV and AIDS we learnt that in the world 34 million people are infected with HIV and 22 million of these are Africans. In Zimbabwe the average life expectancy has dropped from 51 years in 1975 to 44 years in 1997. We discussed what can be done, by ourselves, by international organizations and by governments and people. Another topic was population, and interestingly in my group it was presented by a Chinese girl.
China is well known to have a one child per family policy.
In China's situation, she believed it was. We decided that choice is an important factor in determining family size, but this means that people need to know what options are open to them. Education is the key to development, in many cases. Poverty is a big problem in many parts of Africa, since it leads to disease and environmental problems, powerlessness and strife. It is important to eliminate poverty to allow development to take place.