Essays Tagged: "Sub Saharan Africa"

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humanities. Therare-book collection of early accounts of European explorations covers the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. Special attention isbeing given to material documenting the history of the Swiss ... fic journals.The collection of bibliographies is intended to cover all major geographic regions and subject issues concerning sub-SaharanAfrica. They enable us to maintain the original purpose of the ...

(2 pages) 61 1 4.1 May/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science

AIDS

of AIDS.Behind this mounting death count are the signs of growing socialdisruption. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, more than 1 millionchildren have lost their parents to AIDS. And within four yea ...

(1 pages) 56 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

HIV and AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

rred in the United States, AIDS cases have also been reported in almost every country in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa in particular appears to suffer a heavy burden of this illness.No cure or vaccine ... rch and treatment, as well as in helping people cope with the problem. The social impact of AIDS is substantial and it can no longer be ignored.

(3 pages) 114 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

AIDS

n 190,000 AIDScases and more than 120,000 deaths had been reported in about162 countries worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa in particularappears to suffer a heavy Berden of this illness. So far there is no ... r women between the ages of20 and 40 in major cities of North and South America, WesternEurope, and Sub- Saharan Africa.

(2 pages) 44 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Thinkers of the new. AIDS in Africa.

tion in Africa. UN figures say that 12.2 million women and 10.1 million men were living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 1999. These numbers need to be decreased, and the new millennium is ... hem at a lower cost, to nations that can't afford them. The world is supposed to be one nation, and Sub-Saharan Africa needs help. The other issues that come with these drugs that are being developed ...

(5 pages) 92 0 3.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: Possible Solutions and Causes.

AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: Possible Solutions and CausesSub-Saharan Africa is made up of about ten percent ... 01, two-thirds of the 40 million people living with HIV resided in this region (Hearing 2). Only in Sub-Saharan Africa is this epidemic not concentrated to certain risk groups. The HIV virus is indisc ... little hope if nothing is improved. Due to poor economic conditions and lack of ethical behaviors, Sub-Saharan Africa is losing its' fight against HIV/AIDS.Sub-Saharan Africa's economic situation has ...

(9 pages) 194 2 3.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

c, one issue has remained unchanged; no region of the world bears a higher AIDS-related burden than sub-Saharan Africa. I will examine the demographic effects of AIDS in Africa, focusing on the most a ... will examine the demographic effects of AIDS in Africa, focusing on the most affected countries of sub-Saharan Africa and consider the present and future impact of the AIDS epidemic on major issues s ...

(7 pages) 119 0 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The prospects of reducing the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan.

'life'and how it is lived seems to dominate many mentalities in all corners of the world. Currently sub-Saharan Africa contains 29.4 million out of the 42 million individuals infected with the Human I ... llnesses as the primary cause of death is called the "epidemiologic transition". (Eckert 1998:166). Sub-Saharan Africa has not fully experienced this transition.Southern Africa is the worst hit region ...

(7 pages) 99 0 4.2 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

HIV in Africa

it is difficult to gain access to the necessary medical treatment.Of all the regions in the world, Sub-Saharan Africa seems to be hardest hit by HIV. AIDS is the leading cause of death in this region ...

(1 pages) 69 2 3.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Aids in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is made up of about ten percent of the world's population. In 2001, two-thirds of ... 01, two-thirds of the 40 million people living with HIV resided in this region (Hearing 2). Only in Sub-Saharan Africa is this epidemic not concentrated to certain risk groups. The HIV virus is indisc ... little hope if nothing is improved. Due to poor economic conditions and lack of ethical behaviors, Sub-Saharan Africa is losing its' fight against HIV/AIDS.Sub-Saharan Africa's economic situation has ...

(9 pages) 141 1 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS In the World: This essay is about AIDS. How AIDS effect, the prevention, and all about AIDS.

dren younger than 15 years - were living with HIV/AIDS. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of AIDS cases far exceeds that of all other geographic regions. ... imated 14,000 HIV infections that occur each day worldwide, about half of these infections occur in sub-Saharan Africa. About 70 percent of all people infected with HIV live in this region. In some co ...

(3 pages) 247 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Zimbabwe: From Ian Douglas Smith to Robert Mugabe.

who has lead Zimbabwe since independence. Zimbabwe used to be one of the most prosperous nations in Sub-Saharan Africa with an economy based upon agriculture. Indeed, in the 1980s, Zimbabwe was able t ...

(8 pages) 69 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Aids

Submitting essays"AIDS Leaves Millions of Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa." Encarta Encyclopedia. Dec. ... Gregory, and Christopher Dickey. "Fighting the Disease: What Can Be Done."Newsweek 17 Jan. 2000: 38.Submitting essaysCarey, John. "Africa: The High Price of Denial." Business Week 19 Feb. 2001: 69."A ... et al. "Mapping the AIDS Epidemic's Hot Zone." Newsweek 17 Jan.2000: 37."HIV Infections Decrease in Sub-Saharan Africa." Nation's Health Dec. 2000: 15.Kaheru, Simon, et al. "10 Million Orphans." Newsw ...

(18 pages) 156 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The teacher said it was very informative

Uganda and AIDSUganda, one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to experience the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS and to take action to control th ... the HIV/AIDS epidemic. While the rate of new infections continues to increase in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda has succeeded in lowering its very high infection rates. Since 1993, HIV ...

(1 pages) 35 1 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Visitation paper.

ee major world religions, the belief in a single God. In the Arabic language, the word Islam means "submission" which it is submission to the will of God. A follower of Islam is called a Muslim, which ... uslim population of the world in around one billion, also 30% OF Muslims live in the Indian, 20% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 17% in Southeast Asia, 18% in the Arab World, 10% in the Soviet Union and China. ...

(3 pages) 42 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

AIDS in the United States and South Africa

United States, indication of the AIDS epidemic grew among heterosexual men, women, and children in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS quickly developed into a worldwide epidemic, affecting practically every na ...

(4 pages) 60 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Afican-American

who had been born and reared in Iberia. In the following four centuries millions of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa were brought to the New World as slaves. Today, their descendants form major ethn ... e tropical lowlands of northeastern Brazil and in the Caribbean islands. Most of them came from the sub-Saharan states of West and Central Africa, but by the late 18th century the supply zone extended ...

(55 pages) 973 1 2.4 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

About HIV/AIDS

pidemic of plague proportion, and the majority of its victims will be from the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.In an individual with AIDS the protective immune system has c ... her cells in our immune system, such as those which produce antibodies, by releasing "hormone-like" substances called lymphokines. Interferon, for example, the first lymphokine to be discovered forty ...

(6 pages) 124 1 3.6 Mar/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Alma Ata declaration of 1978

ailed to reach its goal of "Health for All by the year 2000". It has especially failed the women of Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year millions of women and female children are subjected to the inhumane p ... ilation (FGM), are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and face the traditional inequality practices of Sub-Saharan Africa. The provision of PHC by governments in the sub-Saharan region have failed these ...

(5 pages) 38 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Recent famines across Africa have prompted the questions of why Africa, and why again? Focus on these questions by analysing the situation of food insecurity and underlying causes.

urity situations will therefore focus upon the major Developing regions, categorised by the FAO as 'sub-Saharan Africa', 'Latin America and the Caribbean' and 'Asia and the Pacific'. 'Food Security' i ... re causing the most 'concern', where 495 million are undernourished compared to only 194 million in sub-Saharan Africa (FAO 2002 (a): 1). However, in terms of the proportion of undernourished within t ...

(24 pages) 83 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies