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Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community
Disaster management is a process of planning and implementation of measures involving multiple disciplines and sectors; hence Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) cannot go unnoticed. Approximately 189 member states agreed to endeavour to achieve MDGs which should be accomplished by 2015. The purpose...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29955306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v8i2.173 |
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description | Disaster management is a process of planning and implementation of measures involving multiple disciplines and sectors; hence Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) cannot go unnoticed. Approximately 189 member states agreed to endeavour to achieve MDGs which should be accomplished by 2015. The purpose of this research was to establish the primary involvement of the disaster management fraternity within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in this agreement. SADC countries are the countries with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS and they feature on the disaster manager’s priority list of hazards, hence the focus on MDG 6 for this study. Various data gathering tools were employed and included making use of indicators developed by the United Nations to review disaster management statutes or civil protection statutes and scholarly documents on the progress of MDG 6. Structured interviews were carried out with heads of disaster management centres of SADC countries through the guidance of MDG 6 indicators. The main findings were that most statutes do acknowledge the fight against epidemics and most disaster managers are aware of MDG 6 and are involved in its achievement. It was recommended that disaster managers should be part of the Post 2015 MDG delegation. |
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spelling | pubmed-60140232018-06-28 Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community Kunguma, Olivia Ncube, Alice Jamba Original Research Disaster management is a process of planning and implementation of measures involving multiple disciplines and sectors; hence Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) cannot go unnoticed. Approximately 189 member states agreed to endeavour to achieve MDGs which should be accomplished by 2015. The purpose of this research was to establish the primary involvement of the disaster management fraternity within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in this agreement. SADC countries are the countries with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS and they feature on the disaster manager’s priority list of hazards, hence the focus on MDG 6 for this study. Various data gathering tools were employed and included making use of indicators developed by the United Nations to review disaster management statutes or civil protection statutes and scholarly documents on the progress of MDG 6. Structured interviews were carried out with heads of disaster management centres of SADC countries through the guidance of MDG 6 indicators. The main findings were that most statutes do acknowledge the fight against epidemics and most disaster managers are aware of MDG 6 and are involved in its achievement. It was recommended that disaster managers should be part of the Post 2015 MDG delegation. AOSIS 2016-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6014023/ /pubmed/29955306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v8i2.173 Text en © 2016. The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Licensee:AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Kunguma, Olivia Ncube, Alice Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title | Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title_full | Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title_fullStr | Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title_full_unstemmed | Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title_short | Combating HIV and/or AIDS: A challenge to Millennium Development Goals for disaster managers in the Southern African Development Community |
title_sort | combating hiv and/or aids: a challenge to millennium development goals for disaster managers in the southern african development community |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29955306 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v8i2.173 |
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