Browsing Topic Best Sub Saharan Africa Quotes

I can’t understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven’t really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa – 60 percent of people in – infected with HIV are women.

I’ve been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries – a lot of which are in Africa – and how little progress we’ve made there. There’s no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.

There’s so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It’s a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven’t been able to walk away from it.

When you’re sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that’s a living hell.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.