Rates of sex among young people declined in nine of 14 sub-Saharan countries.
The researchers looked at antiretroviral programmes for HIV patients in 13 sub-Saharan countries.
From this collection, they pick the 15 lowest (Nepal, Tajikistan and 13 sub-Saharan countries) and split the difference between them.
But in 21 sub-Saharan African countries, fertility has declined slowly or not at all.
Sub-Saharan African countries ranked as the 10 worst places to be a mother, with the Democratic Republic of the Congo coming in last place.
Politically, the majority of Sub-Saharan African countries are now embracing democracy.
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Further, note 2(d) to subchapter XIX of chapter 98 of the HTS is modified by deleting "Republic of Guinea-Bissau" and "Republic of Mali" from the list of lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries.
Charity campaigners have argued that all aid to Africa should be in the form of grants rather than loans, as most sub-Saharan African countries are unable to repay their existing debts to Western institutions.
The project, composed of four phases, is to conduct a series of pilot Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory-making activities on a grassroots level in six Sub-Saharan African countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Swaziland and Zambia.
The Africa Network Campaign on Education For All (ANCEFA) drives a social movement to achieve EFA. Its member coalitions contributed to the increase in national budgets allocated to education in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries.
Accordingly, I have decided to terminate the designations of the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau as beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries for purposes of section 506A of the 1974 Act, effective on January 1, 2013.
"It combines the investments that MCC has made in many sub-Saharan African countries in agriculture and public infrastructure such as roads and irrigation to complement Agra's investments in providing the rural poor with seeds and fertilisers, " he told the BBC.
Dr Michel Alary, an Aids specialist in the department of medicine at Laval University and the Saint-Sacrement Hospital Research Centre, said that the extremely high temperatures in sub-Saharan African countries could prevent the gel working there if it requires room temperature to be effective.
Women entrepreneurs, representing 40 sub-Saharan African countries, engaged in a dialogue with Tina Tchen, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council, and Ana Harvey, Assistant Administrator at the US Small Business Association on ways to develop and foster stronger business partnerships between Africa and the United States.
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Still, estimates are that between 300, 000 and 400, 000 infants are born globally each year with the infection, about 90% of them in resource-poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
As economies in endemic countries continue to grow (average growth rate of 6% in sub-Saharan Africa), endemic countries are better positioned to contribute a greater share of their own resources.
By 2014, our goal is to halve malaria illnesses and deaths in 70 percent of at-risk populations, by accelerating and intensifying malaria control efforts in the high burden countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Nearly half of these deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa today although some countries have reduced deaths of young children by over fifty percent.
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When the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989, a few months before Mr. Mandela's release from jail, only three of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries were democratic.
That is just one finding of an exercise to measure the performance of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries, judged by five sets of criteria that are totted up and averaged out to give each country an overall governance score.
In a recent report, " The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries, " the Fund singled out sub-Saharan Africa as particularly vulnerable to the crisis, as lower global growth reduces export demand and depresses commodity prices.
India, Turkey, some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia are particularly faced with this problem.
In some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, traditional apprenticeships are the main type of skills training for those not formally employed.
And per capita incomes actually fell in 50 countries in the last decade, most of them the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
The UNESCO Chair in International Development promotes economic and social progress in developing countries with specific emphasis on the needs of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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In 2008, this amounted to about 1.5 billion people, most of whom lived in remote or rural areas of developing countries in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Donor countries should increase the volume of aid flows going to water and sanitation programs and target it to the least developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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"Countries in sub-Saharan Africa that currently increase enrolment in primary education will need to recruit the equivalent of 63% of their current teaching workforce before 2015, " says Marc Bernal, UIS regional advisor in Africa.
In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.
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