UNICEF routinely conducts city-level health surveys in various developing countries, such as Malawi, called the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, or MICS. The MICS focuses on indicators related to maternal and child health, including fertility, child mortality, nutrition, child health, environment, reproductive health, education, child protection, and HIV/AIDS and Orphanhood.
A finding that struck me from the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Engendered Discrimination
Posted in Malawi on October 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A bogy of the mind
Posted in Kenya on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn’t always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away.”
-Albert Camus, The Plague
Last weekend my internet and cable went out in my apartment, so I spent most [...]
