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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]
This mass migration often has detrimental impacts on poorer countries, creating transnational families and loss of formal workers to care for elders, children and the sick within migrant countries. [1] As Ehrenreich and Hochschild point out in their book, women workers emigrate for both economic and non-economic factors. [3]
The Africa Project is an all-volunteer non-profit organization founded by volunteers in 2005 that supports outreach programs and services in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. [1] The Africa Project strives to address extreme poverty, HIV, tuberculosis (TB), malnutrition and other issues that affect children and families in South African ...
A Nigerian man desperate to be with his American wife and children. Awet, who asked that Reuters use a nickname to avoid reprisals against his family, fled Eritrea in 2005. Families in Africa fear ...
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Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, the liberalization of capital movements, the development of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies. [1]
Children in Africa are affected by many different types of abuse, including economic and sexual exploitation, gender discrimination in education and access to health, and their involvement in armed conflict. Other factors affecting African children include migration, early marriage, differences between urban and rural areas, child-headed ...
Dr. Robert Musole, medical director of the Kavumu hospital (right), consults an infant suffering from a severe form of mpox at the Kavumu hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug. 24 ...