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Life expectancy at birth among the most deprived males in England was 73.9 years in 2014 and 2016, compared with 83.3 years among the least deprived, according to latest data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This gap has risen by nearly five months in the last three years, with boys in the least deprived 50 per cent of areas now expected to live beyond the age of 80 years, while the life expectancy of those in the 50 per cent most deprived fell short of 80 years. Infant-Mortality-BBC News-19th-Feb-2018.mp4. Who can she trust? Oxfam scandal comes as no surprise to some. The Times, Linda Polman was not remotely surprised to learn that senior Oxfam officials had cavorted with prostitutes in the ruins of Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake.
Roland van Hauwermeiren, 68, was forced to resign as Haiti country director in 2011 after admitting that prostitutes had visited his Oxfam villa, yet his behaviour became public only last week following an investigation by The Times. Several of his colleagues had also been dismissed for gross misconduct after being involved in what was described as a “full-on Caligula orgy”. “I don’t think I have ever been to an aid operation where it didn’t happen,” the veteran Dutch journalist says of such gross sexual misconduct by the very people who are supposed to be offering help and succour to desperate… Want to read more?
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Expected years of schooling is a calculation of the number of years a child of school entrance age is expected to spend at school, or university, including years spent on repetition. It is the sum of the age-specific enrolment ratios for primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education and is calculated assuming the prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates were to stay the same throughout the child’s life. Expected years of schooling is capped at 18 years.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2010). Mean years of schooling? Gross national income per capita (US Dollar)? Geo-Revision – Revision notes for Geography pupils. Indian village run by teenage girls offers hope for a life free from abuse. Each afternoon the men of Thennamadevi leave their village and head for the surrounding fields, many carrying bottles of high-strength home-brewed alcohol.
Hours later they stagger back home through the paddy fields of the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Thennamadevi is racked by alcoholism. Most of its 150 male inhabitants participate in ruinous daily drinking sessions. Around 90 women with families in the village have been widowed. The youngest husband to die was 21. Hits Viral - Story of Ebola... □□□ Part 2 :...
The World Bank is eliminating the term “developing country” from its data vocabulary – GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION. “In the 2016 edition of its World Development Indicators, the World Bank has made a big choice: It’s no longer distinguishing between ‘developed’ countries and “developing” ones in the presentation of its data.
The change marks an evolution in thinking about the geographic distribution of poverty and prosperity. But it sounds less radical when you consider that nobody has ever agreed on a definition for these terms in the first place. The International Monetary Fund says its own distinction between advanced and emerging market economies “is not based on strict criteria, economic or otherwise.”
The United Nations doesn’t have an official definition of a developing country, despite slapping the label on 159 nations. Alarm as 'super malaria' spreads in South East Asia. Image copyright Science Photo Library The rapid spread of "super malaria" in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning.
This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs. The World Bank. The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 presents maps, charts, and stories related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
It discusses trends, comparisons, and measurement issues using accessible and shareable data visualizations. The data draw on the World Development Indicators the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people's lives. Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world's population, says Oxfam. Economist. A Day in Her Food. Live a day in the food of a woman from a Quechua family in the Andes, following what she might have for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
A Day in Her Food fact: A woman living in hunger in the Andes will not experience much variety in her food options. For example, lunch is nearly always potato-based, and taken in the fields while herding sheep. Africa is the new frontier for commercial drones. Muhanga, Rwanda The world’s first commercial drone delivery service operates from a hill almost smack dab in the middle of Rwanda.
A barbed wire fence surrounds a field, a white tent, and a control tower. From here, Zipline, a San Francisco-based robotics company, delivers blood by drone to almost half of all Rwanda’s blood transfusion centers. Orders are made online, by text, phone, or WhatsApp. A technician sits in a refrigerated room where the blood—specifically red blood cells, platelets, plasma, and cryoprecipitate—are stored, communicating with his team over Slack. Untitled. Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children.
Chinese mothers are still looking to superstition as well as science. Last month, a new mother in eastern China’s Shandong province died while “sitting the month,” a phrase that refers to a traditional period of convalescence after childbirth. During this time, the 20-something woman’s family would not let her use a fan or turn on the air conditioning, even forcing her to cover up with a blanket despite the intense summer heat. Her death from heatstroke sparked a widespread public outcry. Known in Chinese as zuo yuezi, such postpartum lying-in periods have a long tradition in China. In essence, zuo yuezi is a series of rules, taboos, and superstitions that the postpartum mother must observe as she recuperates in the month after childbirth.
These precautions are ostensibly meant to prevent the mother from catching yuezibing — diseases thought to be common among postpartum mothers that may become lifelong afflictions. Martha and mary malaria. Our latest weapon against malaria: a mosquito with glowing testicles. The team of researchers at Imperial College London has found a way to tell the sex of the mosquitoes - by genetically modifying them so that the males express a glowing protein in their testes.
A laser beam then singles out the glowing larvae, which are then separated from the females. "This advance could have enormous implications for controlling mosquito populations," says Andrea Crisanti, the professor of molecular parasitology at ICL. "Now that we can identify males and females at an early stage, it will be possible to release sterile males into the population without the risk of releasing additional females. " Because it is only the female mosquito that bites, females are solely responsible for spreading malaria, and also inflict the most damage on crops. But they are only able to breed once before they die. Up to 600 million people catch malaria each year, and one million die of the disease. You Could Save A Life In The Next Few Minutes, And It Won't Cost You A Penny. This article was sponsored by and written by Bill Gates, who we have partnered with in his fight against malaria. "I have partnered with World Vision to donate 100,000 bed nets to families from Inhambane province – a region in Mozambique where many people still sleep without nets.
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The findings, being presented at the International Conference on Family Planning in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, show that while family planning programs have sometimes been pitched as ways to moderate population growth and minimize pressure on resource-strapped nations, they have real health impacts on individuals. "For 40 years, the slogan 'a small family is a happy family' has been used to promote contraceptive use in developing countries," says study leader Saifuddin Ahmed, MBBS, PhD, an associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Family and Reproductive Health. Disney '43 - The Winged Scourge. BBC iPlayer - The Truth About... - 14. HIV. Raj Panjabi: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor. Peepoo bag offers solution to Kenyan slum's 'flying toilets' Truth about Aids Documentary.
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Giving money to the poor does work. Just look at Ecuador. Is eradicating poverty, a goal the United Nations’ hopes to achieve by 2030, actually feasible? New research out of Ecuador says yes – if governments are willing to pay for it. According to a United Nations University (UNU) - Merit study of Ecuador’s Human Development Bonus (Bono de Desarrollo Humano, or BDH), direct cash transfers have definitively improved social mobility, or the ability of individuals or households to move between social strata. Strong Coffee, Stronger Women. INTERNATIONAL NETS CHAMPIONSHIP – Schedule. Malaria: Kenya, Ghana and Malawi get first vaccine. World Water Day 2017: 60 powerful photos to make you think twice about leaving the tap running. The Risky Lives of Women Sent Into Exile—For Menstruating. Dollar Street. Dozens of countries poised to drive out malaria by 2020. The Economist - Journal. But Really ... How Are The Olympics Still Even Happening? Sahar Speaks — shougofaAlikozay. WORLD HEALTH RANKINGS.
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