according to the World Health Organization. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest ever outbreak of the disease with a rapidly rising death toll in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There have also been cases in three other West African countries, Spain and the United States....
Access to health care by migrants with precarious status during a health crisis: some insights from Portugal. Hum Rights Rev. 2021;22:459–82. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Jiménez-Lasserrotte MDM, Granero-Molina J, Lardon Galindo V, Hernández Sola C, Ventura-Miranda MI, ...
Malnutrition is a major public health and development concern with important health and socioeconomic consequences. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of malnutrition among the group of under-fives is estimated at 41% [1]. It is the only region in the world where the number of child deaths...
Malnutrition is a major public health and development concern with important health and socioeconomic consequences. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of malnutrition among the group of under-fives is estimated at 41% [1]. It is the only region in the world where the number of child deaths...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what’s to come. That can be both deadly and expensive, with damage running in the billions
Access to health care by migrants with precarious status during a health crisis: some insights from Portugal. Hum Rights Rev. 2021;22:459–82. 51. Jiménez-Lasserrotte MDM, Granero-Molina J, Lardon Galindo V, Hernán- dez Sola C, Ventura-Miranda MI, Hernández-Padilla JM, et al. ...
The fact is, in per capita electricity consumption, India is closer to Africa than to China or the club of the rich nations (U.S., UK, EU). Some numbers are important here to understand the extent to which developing nations have contributed to the present climate crisis and to gre...
Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade,African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality(Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1998). 27. For instance, Goran Hyden,Religion, Politics, and the Crisis in Africa(Indianapolis, 1986); James C. Scott,Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasan...
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do...
Providerburnoutwas already high globally and rose to crisis levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. High burnout rates were reported among providers in sub-Saharan Africa. Bias can beimplicit or explicit. It manifests as providing different care based on attributes likesocioeconomic status, racial iden...