Published in Annual review of population law
This document reprints portions of Guinea-Bissau's 1984 Constitution. The Constitution notes that public health efforts would be directed towards prevention as well as the progressive socialization of the health sector. Education is to be strictly linked to productive work and will strengthen an individual's position in the community. The eliminati...
Published in Annual review of population law
This law provides that termination of pregnancy is permitted with the consent of the woman, in a hospital, and with medical assistance a) during the first twelve weeks of gestation; and b) anytime during the pregnancy 1) if continuation of the pregnancy would involve the risk of the death of the woman or serious and permanent injury to her health b...
Published in Department of State publication. Background notes series
Angola's population was estimated at 8.5 million in 1986, with an annual growth rate of 2.7%. Life expectancy is 42 years, and the infant mortality rate is 148/1000 live births. Only 30% of the population is literate. 75% of the work force is in the agricultural sector. Angola, a Marxist people's republic, is ruled by the Popular Movement for the L...
Published in Ugeskrift for laeger
In 1984, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in Quitafine, the southernmost district of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, as part of an ongoing health project in the area. The aim of the survey was to collect data on essential health problems in children under the age of 5 and from pregnant women to evaluate the results of certain preventive effor...
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition
To assess the importance of nutritional status for subsequent survival, 2228 children aged 6-59 months were followed for 8-12 months in 4 different areas of Guinea-Bissau. The overall death rate was 0.62/100 child-months of follow-up (126 deaths) and 0.63 for the 1,756 children who were examined on entering the study (109 deaths). Mortality was twi...
Published in Annual review of population law
This Decree sets forth the organizational framework of the public health services in Mozambique. Among the departments of the National Directorate for Social Action within the public health services is the Department of Childhood Support. This Department has the following functions: "a) to organize, direct, and control the implementation of childho...
Published in Annual review of population law
This 1987 decree of Mozambique introduces detailed regulations of land use, land redistribution, and conservation of natural resources within the general framework of Mozambique's 1979 Land Code. The decree grants use of the land to any person or organization with legal capacity, including Mozambican nationals domiciled abroad and foreign persons o...
Published in AIDS-Forschung : AIFO = Acquired immune deficiency syndrome research
At least 1 million people in Central and East Africa are infected with HIV-1, and there are 10,000 new cases of AIDS per year. HIV-1 is spreading into the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mozambique, Angola and southern Africa. HIV-2 is prevalent in West Africa, particularly Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Groups at greatest risk for HIV-1 are prostitutes, their cus...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
A survey done after a severe epidemic of measles in an urban area of Guinea-Bissau has shown that children born to women exposed to measles during pregnancy had a perinatal mortality rate of 15%, compared with only 4% for other children in the community (OR=4.2; 95% CI 2.1-8.5). None of the women had clinical evidence of measles. Adjusting for back...
Published in Jeune Afrique (Paris, France : 1980)
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) organized a conference in March 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe, to publicize the plight of the 15 million children of South Africa and the 9 neighboring countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Children of the region have been imprisoned, tortured, k...
