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**Group's Name:** Jonathan, Benjamin and Johnson
 * Issue:** Global Infectious Diseases
 * Period:** Humanities A1

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=Introduction of Our Case:=

Every year one million people die of malaria. Most of them are young kids. That’s one kid dying from a curable, treatable disease every 30 seconds. Now many people will think, but it’s just malaria, and nothing as dangerous as cancer or worldwide killers. Yet imagine 1 million families being torn apart each year, 1 million families grieving for their lost ones. And malaria can be treated. The fact that the families watch their children die while knowing there is a cure is extremely sad. They watch knowing that if only they could afford a cure then maybe their children could live. In addition to this is that in Africa today, malaria is understood to be both a disease of poverty and a cause of poverty. Annual economic growth in countries with high malaria transmission has historically been lower than in countries without malaria. Economists believe that malaria is responsible for a growth penalty of up to 1.3%% per year in some African countries. When compounded over the years, this penalty leads to substantial differences in GDP between countries with and without malaria and severely restrains the economic growth of the entire region. Malaria also has a direct impact on Africa's human resources. Not only does malaria result in lost life and lost productivity due to illness and premature death, but malaria also hampers children's schooling and social development through both absenteeism and permanent neurological and other damage associated with severe episodes of the disease. So that is why we chose to focus on malaria. 

Jonathan and Benjamin 

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=Issues:=


 * Poverty
 *  Education for all
 * Global infectious diseases
 *  Digital Divide 
 * Natural disaster prevention and mitigation
 * International labor and migration rule