The parasite keeping millions in poverty (10-24-14)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/21/world/africa/the-parasite-keeping-millions-in-poverty/index.html?hpt=wo


A small parasite in Africa is disabling people, inhibiting their ability to work, and to go to school. It's enough to cause families, already poor, to sink deeper into poverty, and to damage the kids' ability to get an education to get out of poverty. The consequences of this tiny parasite are far--reaching and catastrophic to millions of people in Africa. The thing is, it's easily curable, but most Africans do not have adequate medical treatment facilities.

This article is quite depressing, especially considering how great of health care we have, and how much a little, easily treatable parasite can destroy lives in impoverished nations. Not saying it takes enormous sums of money and an enormous influx in donated resources in order to help Africa, but we should help more than we are. These people live in poverty, they rely on their ability to farm to provide less than enough to live on. One little infection or sickness, or parasite, and their livelihoods are in jeopardy. We, as Americans, should make helping impoverished Africa a higher priority. The poorest of the poor in our country lives with far more wealth, comfort, protection, and hope than any of the poor families in Africa. We send doctors, we can send more. We can do better, and those people deserve better. When we are in an age of heated toilet seats, several-car families, and mass possession of electronics, no country should still be sitting in puny, rough shacks, barely able to eat, and where the most basic of diseases can debilitate an entire village, we, as Americans, need to put emphasis on helping out Africa more, and have the U.N. help too.