disease

I have a friend who has a cousin that has cancer. He has already beaten cancer once, but now it is back again. It is so terrible that cancer can come back! This disease especially, effects his cousin because he cant go to school and with all the medicines and trying to get rid of the cancer his body is not developing the way it should be. Currently, the boy is coping with it by being at the hospital until they have gotten rid of it. He is 8 years old, and looks basically like a 5 year old because of all his body has gone through. His parents have decided to home school him until he can go back to school, but in reality how much schooling is he going to get while feeling like crap and fighting cancer. It is terrible that things like this can happen to people, especially children!




A place that I looked up was a subsaharan tribe in Africa and they are fighting against AIDS. Out of all disease, I feel like that is a huge disease to be fighting against, especially with so little funds. However, the website I looked at said that the tribe is decreasing in the HIV testing so that means the tribe is slowly getting rid of the disease, which is good! People from "Global Fund" have gone over there to help them with testing and giving them medicine.
Having AIDS in your tribe as a child can be frightening. Not only are they trying to fight against that disease, but I can guarantee there isnt much education being taught over there. I guess in some countries, its more about surviving then school. Getting AIDS also decreases your growth and development, and eventually you die. These kids need as much help as they can get!