Purpose of the study : Women's empowerment nowadays refers to encouraging women's feeling self-worth, their ability make own decisions, and right impact others' well-being. This research aims look at globalization on maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Methodology The econometric method is based a dynamic panel model that was applied sample 37 African countries from 2000 2017. For deep analy...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is one of the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which is rising significantly across sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and posing a threat to the social, economic, and cultural fabric of the SSA population. The inclusion of NCDs into the post-2015 development agenda along with the global monitoring framework provides an opportunity to monitor progress of development program...

The present study draws motivation from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with a special focus on SDGs 7 and 13, which highlight need for access to clean affordable energy in an environment devoid of emissions; it addresses climate change mitigation context Sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, carbon-income function setting Africa (SSA) is constructed. dynamic relationship between f...

The impacts of climate change have resulted in the emergence resilience as de factor framework for countries seeking to capture differential and uneven ability prepare, react, respond cope with volatile rapid changes climate-related stresses. Despite being considered by many researchers most vulnerable region negative effects change, Sub-Saharan Africa has not been extensively studied. Using (S...

BACKGROUND Pneumonia is the 2nd leading cause of years of life lost worldwide and is a common cause of adult admissions to hospital in sub-Saharan Africa. Risk factors for adult pneumonia are well characterised in developed countries, but are less well described in sub-Saharan Africa where HIV is a major contributing factor. Exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution is high, and tobacco smok...

In this paper, the way in which economic growth influences income distribution is examined with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite considerable number of SSA countries, region has been slow reversing rising trend inequality. A large proportion countries globally rank among economies extreme The study covers period from 1995 to 2015, due limited data measure inequality, Gini index, for...

Sparse data exist from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A prior review of antimicrobial resistance in SSA from 1990 to 2013 showed a high prevalence of AMR to commonly used antibiotics in this setting. We reviewed the literature published since 2013. Four databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane, and African Journals Online) were searched for articles bet...

• First gap-free daily streamflow dataset for sub-Saharan Africa (1950–2014). Performances of random forest reconstructions provide satisfactory results. Regionally coherent temporal changes and trends in floods droughts. Significant decadal variations modulating Understanding hydrological variability is crucial importance water resource management (SSA). While existing studies typically focus ...

Many studies in developed regions of the world have confirmed that stigma contributes substantially to the psychological and social burden of epilepsy. Relatively few studies of epilepsy-associated stigma have been conducted in Africa, where much of the world's burden of epilepsy exists. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly in rural regions, close family ties, communal living situations, a...

The fight against HIV remains complicated with contracting donor resources and high burden of HIV among reproductive age adults still often limiting independent economic development. In the widespread HIV epidemics of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), it is proposed that key populations with specific HIV acquisition and transmission risk factors, such as men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex work...