The project was started in India but is now being piloted in Africa and some Asean countries as well, says Banavar.
According to the information provided by the Malaria Taxes and Tariffs Advocacy Project (a joint project sponsored by the WHO and Gates Foundation), in August 2010, some 30 countries in Africa still maintained tariffs as high as 20% on ITNs.
We have more articles about New York City than we have about some countries in Africa.
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India, Turkey, some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia are particularly faced with this problem.
Some 40 countries, mostly in Africa, were sufficiently poor and indebted to be eligible for the 1996 debt-relief plan.
In some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, traditional apprenticeships are the main type of skills training for those not formally employed.
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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But some countries, notably in Africa and the Middle East, have chosen not to take part in that process, and misery there has increased.
De Beers operates in some tricky countries: Angola is unstable and South Africa has politicians who would love to nationalise its mines.
But that figure rises to over 10 percent for developing countries, and in some areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, more than one-third of the medicines on sale can be bogus, according to the group.
Are you talking about specifically the Libyan issue or the increase, the request to increase oil in other countries like Mexico, Canada and some portions of Africa?
Having spent a lot of time in Cameroon and having represented the prime minister of Cameroon, you'll don't need a re-branding of the African continent as it relates to tourism and to try to bring dollars in, you need to re-brand some of the leadership in some of these African countries, particularly in Western African and sub-Saharan Africa.
"It would either be maybe playing some cricket abroad in one of the warmer countries of the world, whether it be South Africa or Australia - who knows, or going on that Champions Trophy trip, " he said.
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