Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, is a major danger to public health, particularly in developing countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa...
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congenital syphilis. In Sub-Saharan Africa syphilis contributes to approximately 20% of perinatal deaths. In the developed world, syphilis infections were in decline...
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burden of the epidemic. As of 2023, around 25.6 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were living with HIV, accounting for over two-thirds of the global...
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history of syphilis has been well studied, but the exact origin of the disease remains unknown. It appears to have originated in both Africa and America...
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stillbirths, and congenital syphilis. During 2015, it caused about 107,000 deaths, down from 202,000 in 1990. In sub-Saharan Africa, syphilis contributes to approximately...
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Black women (redirect from African-American women)
Black women generally refers to women of sub-Saharan African, Aboriginal Australian, and Melanesian descent.[citation needed] Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw...
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Columbian exchange (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
partial resistance to it. In Africa, resistance to malaria has been associated with other genetic changes among sub-Saharan Africans and their descendants...
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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS (redirect from HIV/AIDS in East Asia)
world. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV. As of 2020, more than two thirds of those living with HIV are living in Africa. HIV rates...
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epidemic in South Africa: Where are we?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011. "Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS epidemic...
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geographical reach of this article is Sub-Saharan Africa. Though, neighbouring medical traditions have influenced traditional African medicine. Modern science has...
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adolescents, in particular, are at a higher risk of negative consequences as a result of promiscuity. In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescents engaged in promiscuous...
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in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African...
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Sexual and reproductive health (section Africa)
Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, Howson CP, Harrison PF, Law M (1996). Read "In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa" at NAP...
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estimated stillbirths in 2021 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with 47% of the global total in sub-Saharan Africa and 32% in South Asia. Stillbirth...
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Yaws (redirect from Pian in yaws)
yaws cases are in Ghana, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Rates in sub-Saharan Africa are low but tend to be concentrated in specific populations...
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History of circumcision (section Ancient Africa)
the south in Sub-Saharan Africa and toward the east in the region of the Nile. The Nomoli figurines, which were created by the Mende people in Sierra Leone...
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majority in the Marrakech area. Prostitutes tend to be Moroccan women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds as well as migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, many...
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Sexually transmitted infection (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
than in 2009 – attributed to the national HPV immunisation programme. AIDS is among the leading causes of death in present-day Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS...
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Atlantic slave trade (redirect from Slave trade in the Americas)
Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa was less than one year during the period of the slave trade because of malaria that was endemic in the African continent...
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Kaposi's sarcoma (redirect from African cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma)
often affects only the legs. Endemic KS is most common in Sub-Saharan Africa and is more aggressive in children, while older adults present similarly to classic...
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movement of skin. In the United States, keloid scars are seen 15 times more frequently in people of sub-Saharan African descent than in people of European...
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Evidence Action (category Charities based in Washington, D.C.)
Deworm the World Initiative, Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start. It also operates an Accelerator program, whereby new development...
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She was their first president from Sub-Saharan Africa. She worked to promote women's leadership and involvement in policymaking as well as how to improve...
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Globalization and disease (section Syphilis)
trade in slavery. Trading in slaves was another way by which diseases were carried to new locations and peoples, for instance, from sub-Saharan Africa to...
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Eradication of infectious diseases (redirect from Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign)
mosquitoes in endemic communities. In sub-Saharan Africa, albendazole is being used with ivermectin to treat the disease, whereas elsewhere in the world...
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Circumcision (section Middle East, Africa and Europe)
have spread from the Central Sahara, toward the south in Sub-Saharan Africa and toward the east in the region of the Nile. Based on engraved evidence found...
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Bestiality with a donkey (section Sub-Saharan Africa)
"Syphilis Among Arabs In The Near East Bejel And Loath In Iraq And Syria; Firjal And Latta In Palestine; Laghout In Lebanon; Abou-laghif And Jifáar In...
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discovered in 1993. Kaposi's sarcoma is now the most commonly reported cancer in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. According to J. D. Oriel, "in his lifetime...
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Virgin cleansing myth (category Child sexual abuse in South Africa)
as a form of protection in battling demons. People all over the world have heard this myth, including in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas...
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Malaria (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2022)
This includes much of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2022, some 249 million cases of malaria worldwide resulted in an estimated 608,000...
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