Sub-Saharan Africa

has. Although colonialism of the past does not exist anymore, the effects of colonialism are still present and affect many countries to this day. This can be seen through the underdevelopment of many third-world countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, which were formally colonies. The colonizers are still involved in these countries’ economy and…

which lists the poverty lines as well as the countries with a similar day earnings. These countries are then classified as the poorest countries in the world. When looking at the table, one can see that globalization has increasingly impacted sub-Saharan Africa. The countries that struggled to make a living in 2008 are still on the list in 2015. While these countries are struggling…

Local The UN Food and Agriculture Organization gauges that 233 million individuals in sub-Saharan Africa were ravenous/undernourished in 2014-6 (its latest gauge) Sub-Saharan Africa was the region with the second greatest number of hungry people, as Asia had 512 million, fundamentally due to the generously greater masses of Asia when diverged from sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa is confronting one of the biggest nourishment emergencies of late circumstances, with 20 million individuals…

The topic issue of the article is the use of hand-pumps for the distribution of water in sub-Saharan Africa; while this is just one of many methods of supplying water it is one of the most important to those in developing and rural areas. It’s pointed out that the hand-pump is one of the cleanest, easiest, cheapest, and most reliable (year round operation) sources of water for sub-Saharan Africa. Open wells are more vulnerable to contamination and motorized pumps and piped schemes are more…

Discussion All of the points of this research reflect the reasons as to why the hunting of people with Albinism has remained prominent in sub-Saharan Africa. When looking at the role witch doctors play, it is found that they did play a substantial role in Albinos actually being murdered. The people with Albinism would be mutilated so they could then be handed over to the witch doctors, who would, in turn, make them into potions or use them in rituals. Although the witch doctors and the people…

children in sub-Saharan Africa are more prone to respiratory problems and water borne diseases and women have more chances of getting an HIV virus than their village counterparts. For decades, governments have tried to renounce their responsibilities. As a result, almost one billion people are forced to work outside economic system legally, working outside the tax system as informal workers. Earlier it was realised that slum was not an inescapable urban future. In 1958 almost one third of Cuban…

and disability related to pregnancy and childbirth (Safe Motherhood Initiative, 2003). The average woman in sub Saharan Africa faces a 1:16 life risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth, compared with a 1 in 2800 chances for a woman in a developed country. Of the 520,000 estimated deaths each year, over 99% of these occur in developing countries such as Ghana and nearly half occurs in Africa…

receive less the 2100 daily calories necessary. Over two-hundred and forty million (240,000,000)people in the Sub-Saharan African region alone are receiving…

anemias to iron Defiency (WHO, 2001) Globally an estimated 58.27 million women are anemic during pregnancy, 95.7% of whom live in developing countries. In Africa, the prevalence of anemia is estimated to be between 35% and 75% as compared to the developed countries where it is at 15%.the burden of the disease is high and more so in sub Saharan Africa. Anemia poses a 5 fold increase in overall risk of maternal death related to pregnancy and delivery.non fatal maternal complications during the…

Sub-Saharan African societies are more likely than Western societies to place strong and explicit emphasis on the social dimensions of health and illness. Stressing the social aspects of health means that when an individual falls sick, the matter concerns not…