Finished the NOVA Video

In Human Geo today we got the news that we are having a test on Thursday and I'm praying it won't hurt as much as the last test. Anyways we finished up the NOVA video today and it was very depressing but I still learned quite a lot. We continued on learning about Africa and Kenya, it's crazy that the life expectancy went from 65-49 years. It's also crazy and sad that such a huge country has a death rate that's rising (first time this has happened). We were told the story of Flourence, a young girl no older than 20, and her whole family died of AIDS. She was left to care for her siblings and families kids, and worked hard to feed house and clothe them- until she got AIDS herself. She caught this deadly disease by doing what so many other women in that type of poverty do- sell her body for money. It's really sad that this is one of the only ways how many women can get money. Adults between the ages of 20 and 40 are decreasing by an insanely large amount, and the number of elders and kids/teenagers are increasing rapidly. The video said that 19% of african women use birth control- and 60% of women worldwide use birth control. Half of the girls in Kenya have children and they are only 18 or 19- some even my age which is insane to think about. The fertility rate there is 4, and India's is 3; neither are very good. It's a scary thought to think about how the population of the world could nearly double the size it is now in less than 50 years. In conclusion, we could solve this problem so many people and women are having by letting them have fewer children or none at all like they want instead of the husbands and families forcing them to give birth over and over again, giving them more rights and opportunities, and allowing them to get jobs so they can have better ways of getting money and providing for themselves and their families.