A continent in chaos: Africa's environmental issues.
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A continent in chaos: Africa's environmental issues.
Half of Africa's almost 450 million inhabitants have no access to health services, while two-thirds lack safe drinking water, according to a 1991 report by the World Bank. Most Africans are also seriously affected by poverty, civil war, indoor and outdoor pollutants, diarrhea-causing microbes, tropical diseases such as malaria, rapid population growth, inadequate sanitation and sewage treatmen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.941021018