AIDS/HIV and TB

Click on the image to read about how AIDS/HIV and TB are spreading through sub-saharan africa.

Geography of a disease

GEOGRAPHY OF A DISEASE

SARS

Severe acute respiratory syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Special report: Sars | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

WHO | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

BBC - Search results for sars

AIDS / HIV

AIDS, Living with AIDS - National Geographic Magazine

AIDS - Wikipedia

More on Aids & HIV | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

WHO | WHO and HIV/AIDS

BBC - Search results for aids

AIDS Clock

YouTube - About AIDS in Africa...

HIV/AIDS stats

Population Refeence Bureau - HOW HIV AND AIDS AFFECT POPULATIONS.

IGCSE Geography - AIDS and it's Impact on Population

BBC NEWS | Health | The Aids audit: A mixed picture

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Aids crisis

BBC NEWS | Health | HIV impact: Region-by-region

AIDS - a threat to rural Africa

DFID | Millennium Development Goals | HIV, AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

AVIAN FLU

BBC NEWS | England | Cumbria | Drug jobs saved to fight bird flu

BBC NEWS | Business | UN warns of bird flu's high cost

Return of migrating birds could spread avian flu in Europe | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

BBC NEWS - How bird flu has spread - Interactive Map

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 2005 | Bird Flu

Google Earth Blog: Enhanced Avian Flu Outbreak Tracker

Google Earth KML: Watch the Spread of Bird Flu

Google Earth KML: Phylogeny of Avian Influenza

Transmission and infection of H5N1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

More on bird flu | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

WHO | Avian influenza

BBC - Search results for avian flu


MALARIA

YouTube - The Fight Against Malaria

A fishy treatment for malaria | Laboratory News

Britain's mosquito explosion | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health

Free Insecticide Treated Bednets Cut Childhood Malaria-Caused Deaths Up To 44% (TreeHugger)

BBC NEWS | In pictures: Malaria train, Train engine

Malaria Lesson Teaching Resources

Malaria Special - Main news page

Malaria Atlas Project

ScienceDaily: Global Malaria Map Key Weapon In Fight Against Malaria, Scientists Say

Google Earth Blog: The Malaria Map Project in Google Earth

The Winged Scourge (1943)

YouTube - The Winged Scourge

Google Earth KML: Malaria Atlas Project

Malaria - National Geographic Magazine

DFID | Millennium Development Goals | HIV, AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

Malaria No More: Malaria Awareness Day is April 25

(all thanks to Richard Allaway's delicious bookmarks!)

Bird Flu

The issue of Bird Flu is dealt with 'in-depth' by the BBC...click here.

UNAIDS report

December UNAIDS report on AIDS/HIV...click here.

For the full report click here (you need a pdf reader to open)

Interview with Stephen Lewis

'Africa's capacity to deliver is huge'

Interview with Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

click here

AIDS CLOCK

AIDS CLOCK

Sammy Gitau

AIDS/HIV advert

Advert for AIDS/HIV by MSF....click here.

GEOGRAPHY OF A DISEASE

GEOGRAPHY OF A DISEASE...RESEARCH SITES FOR THE THREE DISEASES.

AIDS / HIV

search.bbc.co.uk	BBC Search Results
www.who.int	World Health Organisation
www.guardian.co.uk	Special Report from the Guardian Newspaper
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/	Wikipedia
	World map showing the global distribution of AIDS. From The National Geographic.
	Department for International Development - Millennium Development Goals - HIV and AIDS Factsheet.

THERE ARE OTHER AIDS/HIV SITES ON THIS BLOG (SEE BELOW)

SARS

search.bbc.co.uk	BBC Search Results
www.who.int	World Health Organisation
www.guardian.co.uk	Special Report from the Guardian Newspaper
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS	Wikipedia

AVIAN FLU

search.bbc.co.uk	BBC Search Results
www.who.int	World Health Organisation
www.guardian.co.uk	Special Report from the Guardian Newspaper
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/	Wikipedia

Geography of a disease...HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

· AVERTis an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK. The website is comprehensive and includes sections and up-to-date statistics on HIV and AIDS in the UK; Aid News; Aids Education and much more on HIV and AIDS and other STDs.

· BBC The Global spread of HIV AIDSMore than 39 million people around the world are living with HIV – slightly more than the population of Poland. Nearly two-thirds of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the dramatic rise in cases among women is particularly evident.

· Department of International Development- The spread of diseases like HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis wreak havoc in poor countries. In 2002, 42 million adults and five million children were living with HIV and AIDS and 95% of those people were in developing countries.

· Kids Health HIV and AIDS. Many people (not just kids, but adults, too) don't really understand how HIV and AIDS are related, even though they hear these two terms used together all the time.

· National Geographic– Living with Aids

· The South East Public Health Observatory (SEPHO)is one of nine regional Observatories throughout England and Wales and is a member of the Association of Public Health Observatories. SEPHO’s aim is to improve health and reduce inequalities in the South East region by providing information and support to local organisations, partners and stakeholders.

· UNICEF The big picture: young people and HIV and AIDS Young people are at the centre of the HIV and AIDS crisis. An estimated 11.8 million young people (aged 15–24) are living with HIV today.

· World Health Organisation– Statistics by Disease Links to statistical information available throughout WHO's technical programmes. Organized by disease, condition or topic.

More Websites

· http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/hivaids.asp Contains fact sheets as downloads on HIV and AIDS and links to many different things like News articles from around the world and Case studies about how it has effected people and what they are trying to do to deal with the symptoms and control its spread.

· http://www3.who.int/whosis/links/diseases_links.cfm?path=whosis,diseases_links&language=english#10 Excellent site. All you would want to know about many diseases in people and animals but especially detailed about HIV and AIDS.