Knowing where rates of prevalence are highest — and lowest — can lead to new strategies for treatment and prevention. The map focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, the epicenter of the epidemic.

The research team’s methods, and a few demonstrations of the map’s capabilities, are published in the journal Nature Communications. The map is available for public use through open access. It is the ...

About 53 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live in slums, ... Maps for Central and South America, India and parts of Europe and Asia will come online in weeks, Bettencourt said.

New Delhi, Since 2018, 15 sites across eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa have earned a UNESCO tag, and four new ...

The effect of humans on sub-Saharan Africa’s plant and vertebrate species has been assessed, including in rural areas, such as this near Calitzdorp in the Western Cape of South Africa.

This is particularly useful, considering that ACLED’s data covers more than 60 countries in Africa and Asia. Currently, mass violence is a reality in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa — South Sudan ...

Sub-Saharan Africa also includes islands Cape Verde, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, and St. Helena.) The number of international migrants from sub ...

Clearly, “sub-Saharan Africa” is not just about physical geography, but has a cultural element too. Outsiders have often regarded the region with a mixture of ignorance, fantasy and racism.

Nobody referred to Africa as ‘sub-Saharan Africa,’ but it was due to the AIDS pandemic. That was when this term started being used to refer to black Africa as against Arab Africa,” he said.