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UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives

·September 19, 2024·2 min read

The report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total. If debt payments and stifled budgets are unaddressed in the...

Lack of jobs, the main driver of violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa: UNDP

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·February 7, 2023·3 min read

The report entitled, Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement, underscores the importance of economic factors as drivers of recruitment. Desperation factor Lack of income, the lack of job opportunities and livelihoods, means that “desperation is essentially pushing people to take up opportunities, with whoever offers that”,...

Fake medicines kill almost 500,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year: UNODC report

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·February 2, 2023·1 min read

A lack of access to healthcare and medicines has been fuelling a host of opportunists aimed at filling the gaps, the report Trafficking in Medical Products in the Sahel shows. But, this supply and an imbalance in demand, has triggered deadly results. Bitter pill of trafficking In sub-Saharan Africa, as many as 267,000 deaths...