The knowledge required for being informed about birth control methods also comes into play when African women are at particular risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS. One study has revealed that girls who go to school are three times less likely to be infected with the HIV virus. Part of the problem …
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If, as Nelson Mandela once said, that education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world, the women of Africa are armed with little better then butter knives in a region of the world that desperately needs a social Renaissance. More than half a school classroom in Africa are girls, …
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The prosperity of a country depends in part on the productivity of its citizens. Education plays an important part in ensuring both productivity and prosperity, since the more educated the population, the higher the standard of living through higher earned wages. What does this say about a region of the world where roughly half the population …
