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It has been recognised that malnutrition is a major cause of death among young children in many developing countries, and the fourth major cause of death among pre-schoolchildren in Kenya (Jansen et al 1987, Pollitt 1990). Children deprived of an adequate diet do not grow or learn well, and they do not develop important social skills and effective responses. The well-being of the citizens of a country includes good nutritional status and has to be viewed therefore as a measure of...
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The use of participatory research in developing culturally appropriate health promotion media is now universally recognized. However, although much has been written with respect to the effects of this process on the participants themselves, little evaluation has been conducted on their effectiveness with the larger target group. The photocomic "Between Us" was produced with South African youth to address the issue of communications as it relates to safe sex and non-violent conflict...
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This paper first traces the progress the country has made in food security during the past five years, focusing on the role that markets have played in improving food access for households. It then highlights the enormous challenges the country continues to face in this regard before turning to the issue of planning for drought in 1998 and succeeding years. It draws heavily from the 1992 experience in Mozambique, and emphasizes the need to rethink emergency and commercial food aid response...
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The Republic of Seychelles, located in the Indian Ocean, comprises 115 islands spread over 400 000km, with a total land area of only 444km. 99,6% of the total estimated population of 76 417 live on the three main islands of Mah6, Praslin and La Digue.
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The Republic of Seychelles, located in the Indian Ocean, comprises 115 islands spread over 400 000km, with a total land area of only 444km. 99,6% of the total estimated population of 76 417 live on the three main islands of Mah6, Praslin and La Digue.
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In pre-democratic South Africa, people never learned to listen to the stories of their fellow human beings because that was seen as a threat rather than a challenge. With the long-awaited political and constitutional changes taking place, a different societal structure is being established and a new democratic value system formally and officially being embraced. It would, however, be naive to imagine that policy changes would transform deeply-rooted attitudes, practices and existing...
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Abstract This paper discusses the need for health promoting schools in South Africa and presents an overview of the present situation in this regard. It further examines priorities for the future and identifies strategies for creating health promoting schools in South Africa. These strategies include: advocacy; inter-sectoral collaboration; rationalisation of existing services; a holistic approach to health; “whole school development”; lifeskills education; addressing the attitudes and...
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There are indications that low rainfall, drought periods and famine become more frequent in West Africa. This may in part be a rather early expression of the effect of global warming but it is very likely that local factors such as drastic changes in land cover due to expanded cultivated area, as required by a growing population, play an important role. Before studying the causative mechanisms of climate change, it first needs to be established that climate did indeed change significantly,...
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There are indications that low rainfall, drought periods and famine become more frequent in West Africa. This may in part be a rather early expression of the effect of global warming but it is very likely that local factors such as drastic changes in land cover due to expanded cultivated area, as required by a growing population, play an important role. Before studying the causative mechanisms of climate change, it first needs to be established that climate did indeed change significantly,...
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Our survey was concerned with searching for different markers of Hepatitis B virus infection in 267 primary and secondary school children in two Mauritanian sites in the south and south-east of the country. The results showed that for the surveyed subjects, 16.8% were carriers of HBs antigen, 21% of anti-HBs antibodies, 50.2% of anti-HBc antibodies and 45.4% of anti-HBe antibodies. Furthermore, 28.9% of the carriers of HBs antigen were also of HBe antigen. In all, 32.2% of the subjects had...
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The University of South Africa celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Over this period it grew, becoming one of the largest tertiary distance education institutions and the largest university on the African continent. South Africa always had a mixed racial population with each group having its own culture. This difference between people is further aggravated by differences in the level of “westernisation”. Furthermore, South Africa also suffers from an extreme urbanisation problem where...