covers around 12 million people from its conversations. There are only 40 stillbirths per every 1000 deliveries and the live expectancy for males and females is 66 years old; a full decade longer than the life expectancies of neighboring countries Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire. Despite this‚ the population of Ghana still faces a high risk of contracting an infectious disease. Food can carry bacteria that causes Typhoid fever and viruses such as Hepatitis A. Mosquitoes can carry Malaria‚ Dengue and
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Jafri et al. Population Health Metrics 2013‚ 11:17 http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/11/1/17 REVIEW Open Access Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease Rabab Z Jafri1‚ Asad Ali1*‚ Nancy E Messonnier2‚ Carol Tevi-Benissan3‚ David Durrheim4‚5‚ Juhani Eskola6‚ Florence Fermon7‚ Keith P Klugman8‚9‚ Mary Ramsay10‚ Samba Sow11‚12‚ Shao Zhujun13‚ Zulfiqar A Bhutta1 and Jon Abramson14 Abstract Neisseria meningitidis is one of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis
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INTRODUCTION: The wet season‚ monsoon season or rainy season is the time of year when most of a region’s average annual rainfalloccurs. It usually lasts one or more months.The term "green season" is also sometimes used as aeuphemism by tourist authorities. Areas with wet seasons are dispersed across portions of the tropics andsubtropics.Under
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Dave Leonard Period: 3 According to the information from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)‚10 of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the world are Afghanistan‚ Angola‚ Bangladesh‚ Benin‚ Bhutan‚ Burkina Faso‚ Burundi‚ Cambodia‚ Central African Republic‚ Chad and etc. There are three criteria used to identify cases of addition to the lists of LDCs and cases of graduation from it. Countries that meet the following three criteria will be qualify to
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9/1/13 India: Teak log prices firm at local auctions the timber network Help Contact English Search ALL FORDAQ Marketplace Home > Market Info Directory Market Info Our Services Not a member yet? Join Fordaq Log in News Search India: Teak log prices firm at local auctions June 22‚ 2011 • Source: ITTO’s Tropical Timber Market Report • View s: 10761 Advanced search Archive Auction sales at Government Forest Depots in Gujarat and Central India are
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Africa is the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent with a continental GDP that accounts for just 2.4% of global GDP. 11. Almost 40% of adults in Africa are illiterate – twothirds are women. Adult literacy rates are below 50% in Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Chad‚ Ethiopia‚ Guinea‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Senegal‚ Sierra Leone and The Gambia. 12. Over 25 million people are HIVpositive on the continent and over 17 million have died of the disease already. 13. The Second Congo War claimed over 5.4 million lives and is the deadliest worldwide
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Nations Children’s Fund had concluded that many ivory Coast farmers used slaves‚ and the U.S. State Department‚ in its Year 2000 Human Rights Report‚ estimated that in recent years over l5‚000 children from the neighboring nations of Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Mali‚ and Togo had been sold into slavery in the ivory Coast. Alinight-Ridder newspaper investigation published on Tune 24‚2001 called additional attention to the use of the slave boys on Ivory Coast cocoa farms and largely
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The Effect of HIV/AIDs on Society 72 Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 15 million Africans have died from AIDS. Nearly two-thirds of all people living with HIV are found in sub-Saharan Africa‚ although this region contains only about 10% of the world’s population. The Impact on the Health Sector This epidemic has an extraordinary burden on already troubled health sector. As the epidemic matures‚ the demand for care for those living with HIV rises‚ as does the toll of AIDS
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ECOSOC study guide Committee: Economic and Social Council Issue: Food security and agricultural development in the Sahel region Student Officer: Rain Yang I. Committee Information ECOSOC was established by UN Charter body that coordinates with economic and social‚ 14 specialized agencies‚ 9 functional commissions and 5 regional commissions. With 54 members serve as central forum and discussing about the world’s economic‚ social and environmental challenges. This committee is responsible
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provides education at high costs which results in the under-consumption of the good. Most Governments often provide merit goods for free but when considering Sub-Saharan African countries‚ this has not been in practice‚ for instance‚ public schools in Burkina Faso have since been experiencing high charges of fees. This often results in welfare loss as illustrated
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