This report explores how vulnerability to HIV/AIDS applies to women in the reproductive age range living in the slum areas of Delhi and Hyderabad. The paper is based on a qualitative study of AIDS awareness levels conducted during the summer of 2006. It offers insightful narratives from a sample...

Aufgrund des Ausbaus des Verkehrsnetzes im Norden hat der Süden seinen privilegierten Zugang zum Transportsystem verloren. Die zentrale Region sollte in diesen Ausbau stärker miteinbezogen werden, um ihre wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu fördern und Arbeitskräfte aus dem Süden anzuziehen....

Political violence in civil war and ethnic conflicts has generated millions of refugees across the African continent with unbelievable pictures of suffering and unnecessary death. Using a political ecology framework, this paper examines the geographies of exile and refugee movements and the...

This paper examines the spatial variation of infant mortality in Malawi between 1977 and 1987. Data from the 1977 and 1987 censuses are used in simple correlation and forward stepwise regression analysis to explain and/or predict the variation and change of infant mortality at district (county)...