Dying young in Zimbabwe
Government officials in Zimbabwe are good at denying the obvious, so it comes as no surprise that the country's Minister of Health claims the new WHO World Health report is wrong in its incredibly depressing finding that the average life expectancy in Mugabe's fiefdom is now just 34 years for women and 37 for men. The numbers unfortunately ...
Government officials in Zimbabwe are good at denying the obvious, so it comes as no surprise that the country's Minister of Health claims the new WHO World Health report is wrong in its incredibly depressing finding that the average life expectancy in Mugabe's fiefdom is now just 34 years for women and 37 for men. The numbers unfortunately support today's reports of the country's worsening orphan crisis.
Government officials in Zimbabwe are good at denying the obvious, so it comes as no surprise that the country's Minister of Health claims the new WHO World Health report is wrong in its incredibly depressing finding that the average life expectancy in Mugabe's fiefdom is now just 34 years for women and 37 for men. The numbers unfortunately support today's reports of the country's worsening orphan crisis.
Twenty-eight countries registered average life expectancies of 50 or younger in the report – with just one outside Africa: Afghanistan, registering just 42 years for both men and women.
No comment from Karzai, but he's been busy this week signing smart accords with India and worrying about American generals' stolen social security numbers.
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