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Access to abortion in Africa and Latin America : a question of public health and social inequality

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Health - Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Cape Verde, Tunisia, South Africa, Egypt, Congo, Malawi, Swaziland, Algeria, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua

May 2008

Abortion is a serious public health problem in many countries of the South and it reveals many social injustices. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in Latin America 3.7 million women resort to unsafe abortions each year. In Africa, an estimated 4.2 million women put their lives ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa : the population emergency

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Human and social sciences - South Africa, Angola, Archipelago of the Canaries, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Democratic republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Kenya, Reunion, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

December 2007

The population of Sub-Saharan Africa is continuing to grow at twice the rate recorded in Latin America and Asia. This exceptional population growth is a major handicap for efforts to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Objectives (MDO) in most of the countries lying South of the Sahara. With ...

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