(par 5.2.4.1.2) The World’s Largest HIV Epidemic in Crisis: HIV in South Africa
The World’s Largest HIV Epidemic in Crisis: HIV in South Africa https://www.csis.org/analysis/worlds-largest-hiv-epidemic-crisis-hiv-south-africa Commentary by Sara M. Allinder and Janet Fleischman In some communities of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 60 percent of women have HIV. Nearly 4,500 South Africans are newly infected every week; one-third are adolescent girls/young women (AGYW) ages 15-24. These are staggering figures, […]
(par 5.2.1.2) Population controls ‘will not solve environment issues’
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29788754 27 October 2014 Last updated at 21:50 GMT By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Nargis, born in 2011, was named the world’s seven billionth person by Plan International Restricting population growth will not solve global issues of sustainability in the short term, new research says. A worldwide one-child policy would mean the number […]
(par 5.2.1.2) Population growth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The estimated size of the human population from 10,000 BCE–2000 CE. In biology, population growth is the increase in the number of individuals in a population. The population growth rate is the rate at which the number of individuals in a population increases in a given time period as a fraction of the initial […]