Sub-Saharan Africa

The signification increases in farming output provided by GMOs can greatly assist in providing much-needed food to the millions of starving people in Sub-Saharan Africa. However; because the use of GMOs is a recent phenomenon, sufficient time has not yet passed to fully study and understand if these products have any negative side-effects on people who consume them or the environment where grown. In the event…

The practice is mostly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, dry-sex practices are not limited to Africa. Afro-Surinamese women frequently use genital steam baths that contain tightening and drying herbs (van Andel, 2007; van de Wilgert, et al., 2000); Bekisnska et al., 1999;). The literature review evidences that having a real time in sexual intercourse is a desire on the part of both men and women. Women are eager to please their men regardless at times of consequences. However, due to…

2010). There was a brief period of increase with the incidence of HIV/AIDS (between 1985 and 1992), but since then, there has been a steady decline in tuberculosis due to a number of control measures. In developing countries, most especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, there is a high incidence and prevalence of the disease and major prevention and control measures have been instituted to combat…

relation to education cannot be ignored. When girls do not go to school and do not produce for their parents, their families choose to marry her in order to secure their future. In fact, according to UNESCO, “If all girls had secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia, child marriage would fall by 64%, from almost 2.9 million to just over 1 million” (2). This, along with rape, lead to childbirth. The lack of education and access to information allow women…

counterparts. One of the contributing factors of this situation is the high rate of poverty. The female population is compromised since most societies will prefer to educate the boy child as opposed to the girl child (Simonen, 2009). However, women in sub-Sahara Africa are being empowered through national gender policies and specific legislations that have been drafted to ensure that female population is represented in government. These gender policies advocate for gender equality and the…

the future that will evolve without meaningful interventions, is indeed depressing but should not be accepted as a possible future. Sub-Saharan Africa needs family planning services more than almost anywhere else in the world. With seventy percent of new HIV cases originating in this region a need for better healthcare services is needed immediately. Sub-Saharan Africa faces challenges such as religious and economic views as well as social structure…

biodiversity, human livelihoods, global economy, water resources and agriculture. Developing countries especially in Africa are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than countries in the developed world. According to Osborn (2015), the world’s poorest people are the most vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change. The vulnerability of the poor especially in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has led to a decrease in agricultural production…

people reside is at Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 24 million people live infected with HIV, as reported by Dr. Charles Wachihi in the film Disease Warriors. Over 60 % of the global deaths resulting from HIV, have been in Africa. Poverty plays a big role for the treatment of HIV, as do the determinants of health. Doctors in Africa can not prescribe the same drugs as Doctors in that United States, simply because of the income of the people that live in Africa. The patients in Africa normally have…

rest of the world. The United States, for example, makes up only 4% of the world’s population, but accounts for over 25% of carbon emissions (Report 5). This raises a number of alarming questions: how can we attempt to promote clean energy in Sub-Saharan Africa, if we are unable to solve the emissions crisis at home? It is fairly common knowledge that in the United States, an average citizen makes much more money than a typical villager in, for example, Malawi. As a matter of fact, U.S. GDP is…

“The vast majority of people living with HIV are in low-to middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.” According to AIDS.gov, most people who have HIV/Aids are on the lower end of the socio-economic scale in Africa. This can play an important role in the diseases that are all around in Africa; most of Africa has HIV/AIDS. According to the figure 1 below, 24.7 million people live with HIV and out of the 25.7 million, only 39% of them are receiving treatment. This could be…