Sub-Saharan Africa

Consequentially millions of children and youth of their futures. In Sub-Saharan Africa the educationally marginalized hail from rural or remote villages, conflict affected areas, or come from ethnic and linguistic minorities, and make up half of the children that fail to complete a full cycle of primary school. For example in Uganda 90 out of 100 children of the poorest households who entered school in 2006 only 49 out…

orphans and that excludes some children. Not counted is 150 million street children, 1.2 million trafficked children, 10’s of thousands of drafted children. One in every six kids is an orphan. The most affected areas of the Orphan Crisis are in Sub-Saharan Africa with 56 million orphans, 27% of orphans resulting from HIV/AIDS, and in South Asia with 40.8 million kids and only 1% of the kids coming from HIV/AIDS. In the United States there are 120,00 orphans. The biggest factor fueling the orphan…

Sub-Saharan Africa is an endlessly revolving door of policy challenges and changes for the United States and other global leaders. Many of the countries in the region gained independence during the 1960s, and development, health, and government organization have been slow in terms of reaching global standards. The area is prone to diseases such as Malaria, HIV, and Ebola, although significant progress has been made in decreasing the number of cases of each of these. Economically, the region has…

Within the Regional and Comparative Studies major, I plan to study gendered violence in Sub-Saharan Africa – specifically how religious traditions create a culture in which violence against women thrives. In today’s deeply polarized world, it is more important than ever to understand the extremely divisive force that is religion, and how different religious beliefs serve to inform a society’s treatment of women. Several years ago, I read Jimmy Carter’s excellent book A Call to Action: Women,…

tropical diseases are a medically diverse group of tropical infections which are especially common in low-income populations in developing regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They are caused by a variety of pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa and helminths. Different organizations define the set of diseases differently. In sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of these diseases as a group is comparable to malaria and tuberculosis. Some of these diseases have known preventive measures…

There are approximately 37 million people living with HIV in the world today. More than two-thirds of these people reside in sub-Saharan Africa (amfar, 2015). The country with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS is Swaziland, which will be the main area of focus. However, we plan to implement the program among surrounding regions as well. Although this disease now affects young women and children the most, the problem begins with older males who have contracted the disease. As the rate of disease…

Armed Conflict is one of the principal causes of the plight of Sub-Saharan Africa today. Conflicts in Africa have caused massive death and destruction, uprooting of the populations, and erosion of social capital. The factors that have sparked these conflicts range from poverty, struggle for scarce resources, rapid economic modernization, ethnic rivalries, religious intolerance, bad governance and misuse of resources, arbitrary national boundaries imposed by colonial powers, political-military…

At an estimation of one out of every three people in sub-Saharan Africa do not get enough nutrition daily (“10 Poverty In...”). In Sub-Saharan Africa around 214 million people do not get enough food each day (“Know Your World...”). Those people are not helping themselves either, because if they are hungry then they will not be able to perform their best…

population pyramids of Sub Saharan Africa and comparing it to that of developed area like Europe, we begin to see dramatic differences between the two regions. As of 2016, Sub Saharan Africa’s population pyramid currently displays the attributes of a stage 2 country in the demographic transition model where majority of the population is under 15 and is dependent on others until they going the working population…

The HIV and AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is the most serious in the world. It is estimated that as many as 24.7 million people were living with HIV in 2013. This extraordinary large number is approximately 71% of the total global epidemic. Approximately one million of these people with HIV will die each year and another 1.5 million will become infected. Although HIV is a problem in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, some countries have higher numbers than others. The most severely affected…