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HLTC23H3 Final: Lecture 11 Study Notes

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Health Studies
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HLTC23H3
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Jason Ramsay

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12. 3 million children under the age 15 have lost one or both parents to aids. Life expectancy in this area has been reduced to 39 years old: parents may give h iv to their children through lateral transmission (during delivery, through blood, etc. ) In zimbabwe, the aids epidemic has been affected by the 70% unemployment rate, 100% or higher annual inflation, no agricultural system anymore (takeover and mismanagement of settler owned farms. 50% increase in mortality for children under 5. When growing up is hard: growing up in sub-saharan africa is already a difficult proposition, there is widespread political strife. In many countries, political strife and civil war compromise efforts to deal with the pandemic. What they found: conduct problems: conduct problems: no elevated risk of conduct problems compared to control group, peer problems: no general trends, but orphans reported that they did not have a.

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