Word: sub-saharan
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...cycle of disease and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa will never be broken unless the women there can claim autonomy over their own bodies. Their subservience and absolute powerlessness, as is true in many places in the world, only serve to condemn more adults and children to suffering and death. I'm extremely angry that the world decries the symptoms but is not solving the underlying problems. These African women experience human rights violations every day of their lives. LYNN HIGHLAND Morrison, Colo...
...that while we are able to send in troops to enforce peace in warring nations, and we can provide relief for victims of nature's disasters, we are failing in the fight against the deadly disease of AIDS as it takes its toll all over the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The saying "It takes a village to raise a child" also applies in this case; it takes the global village to combat the devastating and destructive strength of the AIDS virus. As long as developed countries don't take measures to help the underdeveloped nations of the Third...
What he likes best is dry sex. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, to please men, women sit in basins of bleach or saltwater or stuff astringent herbs, tobacco or fertilizer inside their vagina. The tissue of the lining swells up and natural lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds...
...certified polio-free region undermined World Health Organization plans to eliminate universal vaccination once it declares polio eradicated, which it had hoped to do by 2005. Widespread on five continents, including the Americas, Europe and Asia, through the late 1980s, polio has been contained mostly to parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent...
...crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class were patting themselves on the back for spreading democracy into hitherto authoritarian climes, Kaplan was prepared to question democracy's significance in understanding the global dynamic. Indeed, Kaplan sees the anarchy of sub-Saharan Africa as but a preview of the fate that awaits the industrialized world...