Analytic Epidemiological Literature Review of HAT
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Analytic Epidemiological Literature Review of HAT
The analytical epidemiological literature examines the incidence and distribution of HAT in the democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in particular, addressing the causes of the HAT and the level of prevalence of the diseases in DRC. The bottom line is ascertain why the HAT pandemic is a major issue with respect to your GHP.
HAT has been reported to Africa and highly concentrated in central Africa, whereby DRC accounted to 70% of the infections in the continent. According to World Health Organizations (WHO), factors such such as extreme tropical conditions, poor health infrastructures, and under-reporting and poor prevention measures. For instance, considering the environmental settings, DRC settles in the green equatorial forests that is characterized by extreme tropical climates (Mumba, Bohorquez, Jane Messina, & Taylor, 2011). The nature of the setting provides ideal habitats of the HAT vectors as well as the human activities carried out in biotopes occupied by tsetse flies. In particular, equatorial climate leads to humid forests which harbours numerous tsetse flies, whereby humans expose themselves with the insects during their adventurous expedition and economic pursuits such as hunting, faming, fetching firewood, forest clearing as well as timber re...