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malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … information from GIS and malaria databases to construct variables that capture additional components of children's geographic …
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"Child labour constitutes a major public health concern, with estimates that world-wide 110 million children aged 5-14 years are engaged in labour that can be described as hazardous or intolerable. This book examines both the rights oriented and public health perspectives on child labour. A...
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The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … counterfactual in which there is no epidemic. Although AIDS does not bring about a catastrophic economic collapse, it does cause …
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The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …
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female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
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