Global Health 101:
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It may seem odd to take Global Health 101 as a senior after having already completed all of my other global health coursework and a global health internship abroad, but this was a requirement to earn my global health minor, and I'm glad that it was. The coursework was more challenging than its 101 designation lets on (covering a lot of international history, economic theory, and social theory in order to place the concept of health within the context of today's globalized world) and allowed flexibility for the main project - designing a proposal for the "Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria," an international organization that provides funding for relevant global health projects across the globe. I chose Bolivia as my area of focus, and wrote a proposal for addressing HIV/AIDS in that country. This project helped me synthesize what I had learned during my internship abroad in Bolivia as well as in my global health coursework at UW so that I could design a project plan which addressed the biological aspects of HIV/AIDS as well as the social, cultural, and political context of Bolivia. Below you can read my proposal and click on the map to get linked to a google map I created for the project, which shows demographic and HIV/AIDS statistics for each of the nine regional departments of Bolivia.
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