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Working across Africa. It was launched to educate and improve health in South Africa, [1] uplift and empower communities with various Educational and Health initiatives and interventions. The organisation works with Government, international donors and blue-chip corporations to deliver sustainable and practical change to the developmental ...
Educational Research Network For West And Central Africa, also known as Réseau Ouest et Centre African de Recherche en Education, is an educational organization found by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the year 1989 in Freetown the capital city of Sierra Leone.
Worldwide, substantial progress has been made in the effort to reduce child mortality. The number of under-5 deaths in the world has declined from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011; and the global under-five mortality rate has dropped 41 per cent since 1990 – from 87 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 51 in 2011. [4]
The Principal Investigators and host institutions for the African sites are: Dr. Jimmy Volmink who is the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University in South Africa; Dr. Clement Adebamowo at the Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria; Dr. David Guwattude at Makerere University in Kampala and Dr. Francis Bajunirwe at Mbarara University in Mbarara, Uganda; and Dr. Marina ...
With community health programmes in Central and South Asia, as well as East Africa, AKHS is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It provides curative health care through 237 health centres, dispensaries, hospitals, diagnostic centres and community health outlets to one ...
Limited access to education and health issues can be further compounded by inadequate water systems or diseases that may follow. Malaria, cited to be a main cause of death in Africa, [38] is a mosquito-borne disease that can commonly be found in unmanaged pools of still water. The mosquitos breed in such pools; consequently, children who drink ...
The eLearning Africa Report provides an annual overview of the state of eLearning in Africa and considers the impact technology is having on education and development throughout the continent. [11] The report includes surveys and country guides as well as features, news and opinion pieces from a variety of authors. [12]
In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves only 75.2% of what is similarly expected. [ 7 ] The Central African Republic falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health ; the nation is fulfilling only 29.8% of what is expected based on the resources (income) it has ...