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This is what the World Bank says about this: “Poverty reduction has been faster in those regions in which poverty was higher and as a result the proportion of the population living beneath the national poverty line has converged to around one in 3 in all regions in 2011.” The World Bank...
The executive director of the Water Witness International group came forward to suggest that the UK should be held responsible for the cholera outbreak in Malawi which has killed 1210 people after the UK cut the WASH aid budget of the country by GBP 90 million [30]. The UK has since ...
I. Introduction Fuelwood is the forest commodity produced in large quantities and is the principal component of rural domestic energy in India and in many other developing countries. It is an alarming fact that today in the 21st century there are still billions of people who totally rely on ...
In the other papers, household survey datasets are used to evaluate implications of specific ecosystem services interventions, including conservation agriculture and wildlife management areas, and are structured accordingly. In their study of subsidy payments in Malawi, Bell et al.6 apply a classic ...
Extended schooling and good housing conditions are associated with reduced risk of leprosy in rural Malawi. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1994; 62(3):345–52. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Lockwood DN. Commentary: leprosy and poverty. Int J Epidemiol. 2004; 33(2):269–70. Article PubMed...
Breast cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries: a perspective from Malawi J Glob Oncol, 2 (1) (2016), pp. 4-8, 10.1200/JGO.2015.000430 Google Scholar 13 L Steinman, H Heang, M van Pelt, et al. Facilitators and barriers to chronic disease self-management and mobile health ...
1In many parts of the world, women tend to be the poorest of the poor in a very literal sense. In addition to being the majority among the poor, they are often denied the most basic rights and access to critical resources such as land, inheritance or credit. Their labor and knowledge ...
(68%), Malawi (68%), Guinea-Bissau (65%), South Sudan (62%), Mozambique (62%), Somalia (57%) Zambia (76%); Nigeria (76%); Lesotho (76%); Sao Tome & Principe (68%); Senegal (63%); Rep of Congo (63%); Swaziland (61%); Angola (61%); Kenya (52%) Namibia (63%), ...
Of the 21 areas with phase 1B evaluations, 13 met both of these criteria, 5 failed both criteria and 4 evaluation areas in Malawi and Chad had an estimated area prevalence below 0.5 % but failed the maximum prevalence criterion because of an elevated prevalence (between 3.4 and 11.9 %) ...