Author: Felix Banda

ISBN No: 1-919799-97-4
Cost: 45.60

One of the major challenges confronting health on the African continent is the issue of accessible information regarding clean water and sanitation. Related to this is non-threatening and non-sophisticated information on the easily preventable (and sometimes easily treatable) water-borne, air-borne, skin-to-skin or blood-borne communicable diseases. The onset of HIV/AIDS has only compounded the problem by making the impact of these diseases more devastating, through the promotion of opportunistic infections arising from these communicable diseases. In particular, malaria, TB, cholera and bilharzias have combined with HIV/AIDS to form a deadly cocktail that has wrecked havoc on the African family and society. Apart from these diseases, the booklet also discusses suggestions for the prevention of scabies and chickenpox.