By asoares
(2003) With young people comprising a sizable proportion of Zimbabwe’s population, government officials, health workers, and community leaders face the overwhelming task of meeting the reproductive health needs for this special group.
(January 2003) Canada and the United States share a long land border and similar popular cultures. They are major trading partners and have fought in many of the same military conflicts overseas.
(January 2003) Motherhood should be a time of anticipation and delight for a woman, her family, and her community. For many women, however, it is a time laden with risk and danger.
By asoares
(2003) La maternité est une période qui devrait être faite d’anticipation et de bonheur pour une femme, sa famille et sa communauté.
(2003) In 2001 there were about 4 million births in the United States and a total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 births per woman.
By asoares
(2002) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 300 million people worldwide suffer from malaria each year resulting in at least 1 million deaths.
By asoares
(December 2002) Despite major gains in child survival in the last 25 years, more than 10 million children around the world die each year before age 5, often from diseases and conditions that are preventable or easily treated.
(Décembre 2002) En dépit des acquis majeurs en termes de survie des enfants au cours des 25 dernières années, plus de 10 millions d’entre eux décèdent chaque année dans le monde avant l’âge de 5 ans, souvent à la suite de maladies et de conditions qui auraient pu être évitées ou traitées sans difficulté.
(2002) Stigma and discrimination remain a major fact of life for the estimated 29.4 million people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and for the more than 11 million children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
(December 2002) Mortality rates improved for both women and men in the second half of the 20th century. But these rates improved more rapidly for women than for men, so that until recently, the gender gap in life expectancy increased.