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Results filtered by "African Health Challenges"
Adult Prevalence of AIDS Map
  • 2006 map by UN AIDS that shows percentage of infected population by country
African Development Bank: Water
  • Use search engine to find numerous articles on the AFB's water supply and sanitation projects
African Studies Center/Health (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Superb annotated links to web sites on individual African diseases
  • Links to individual African health ministries and hospitals
AIDS (National Center for Policy Analysis)
  • Website meant for debates includes pros and cons of an abstinence only policy, new drugs for AIDS treatment, sexual violence, the stigma of AIDS
  • Primarily an American perspective
AIDS Crisis in Africa
  • Hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, March 27, 2003
  • Examines the federal role in combating the global transmission of AIDS, in Africa, focusing on issues relating to research, prevention, care, and treatment, HIV transmission through unsafe medical practices, and global control of tuberculosis and malaria
AIDS Education Global Information System
  • Search "traditional healers" for superstitions about AIDS cures
Armed Conflict Database (UMich Only)
  • Annual in-depth written analysis of armed conflicts around the world since 1997, including non-state parties, death toll
  • Statistics, bar graphs, and pie charts by year and country for fatalies, weapons, refugees, and returnees
  • Summary information on individual non-state groups (e.g. Hezbollah)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
  • Passed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948
Country Health Profiles (WHO Africa)
  • Separate documents for each country give literacy rates, deaths by disease for children and adults
  • Access to water, sanitation, mosquito nets, and vaccinations
  • Behavioral risks and condom use
  • Infant mortality rates and life expectancies
Drugs for Neglected Diseases
  • Describes new drugs being developed
  • Describes diseases for which drugs have only marginally been developed
    • African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
    • Dengue fever
 
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