Word: ruralization
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...Dora Akunyili and her family were driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
Well-nourished babies in Honduras look like well-nourished babies everywhere--plump, active, alert. In rural Honduran towns, there's now one more way to identify them: look for a little blue pin next to their names on one of Vicky Alvarado's healthy-eating charts. A child earning one of those is a child getting a fair shot at life...
...months later, it's clear the AIDS minister was right. The site that Farmer's team was assigned--an abandoned hospital in a rural province with a population of 340,000 and no doctors--is drawing patients from miles around--women in brightly colored skirts, men in tattered work clothes and children in whatever happens to fit. (It's not unusual in rural Rwanda to see what appears to be a 5-year-old girl in a ruffled dress and discover when she squats down that...
...focus so much energy on ministers and churches? "People forget that churches also have hospitals in Africa," Okaalet says. "Most of the mission-based hospitals are in the rural areas where governments cannot reach. Where the road for the four-wheel-drive stops, the pastor gets on his bicycle. Where the bike path stops, the pastor lays it aside and goes on foot...
They do need her. Although most of Nigeria's estimated 4 million HIV/AIDS victims live in remote places like Biliru, "the fight against HIV/AIDS is being fought in big cities, expensive hotels, huge jeeps and office buildings," Ishaya says matter-of-factly. "The people who desperately need help in rural areas are not getting anything. I can't stand it and will speak the truth...