1 Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 4 Vaccine Evaluation Centre, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape To...

1t d reid, 2H Ipp, 3L Becker, 1R H Glashoff. 1Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; 2Division of Haematology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University & NHLS, Cape Town, South Africa; 3Desmond Tutu Foundation for HIV Research, University of...

We analyzed the expansion process of town centers in the rural area of Changjiang delta since middle of 1980s and its mechanism using satellite images. The local industries played the most important role in urbanization of rural areas through investing their profits and paying their taxes to the town finance. Therefore, expansion of the town center was regulated by the growth of local industrie...

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...

BACKGROUND After 4 years a coronary heart disease risk factor intervention programme produced equally large and significantly reduced risk profiles in two intervention towns compared with a control town. Intervention effects through community participation were assessed after cessation of the active intervention programme. The impact of secular trends was assessed in the control town and in two...

Phytoplanktons are free-floating microscopic plants in water and they the primary producers providing food to aquatic organisms. However, quality affects species production assemblage terms of diversity, composition, abundance. This study assessed spatial temporal diversity abundance phytoplanktons Gusii wastewater treatment plant. A total 124 phytoplankton were identified belonged six families...

1Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 3Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 4Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, ...

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...