Congressional Digest

Excerpt

(Excerpted from Congressional Digest, September 2007)

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions
of the world and contains many of the world’s least-developed
countries. The region has just over 10 percent of the world’s population,
yet is home to nearly 70 percent of all people living
with HIV or AIDS. Of the 350 million to 500 million cases of malaria
worldwide, most occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where at least
1 million children under five die of the disease each year.
In addition, half a million sub-Saharan Africans die of tuberculosis
each year.
Many problems account for this health crisis…