Children needing vaccines don't only live behind the neat borders of 'poor' countries that traditionally receive donor attention and support; they are also the children fleeing war and conflict, and living in refugee camps.
The roof of the world is a crowded place where one can procure sushi and prostitutes, and where the indulgences of wealthy Westerners stand in contrast to the plight of poor locals.The border guards fired on the pilgrims as they crossed the pass, minutes from the border.
TYRE is a small province on Lebanon's border with Israel, a place of poor tobacco farmers and tin-roofed shacks.
These factors include the strength and extent of law enforcement, activities of market control forces, and the living standards of poor people in border areas (poor, jobless people near some border entrance points tend to work for smugglers to move cigarettes into Vietnam).
When her husband became terminally ill and died, she inherited a small stretch of poor scrubland that borders an unfinished road in Iringa, western Tanzania; the fertile land went to his first wife.
In his environmental research on the U.S. Mexico border, Donnelly stressed the importance of learning coupled with community-based research as he worked to improve the lives of poor and disenfranchised border populations exposed to hazardous waste.
When the United States opened its borders to the poor island nation of Micronesia in 1986, many predicted that Micronesians would flood into Hawaii and California.
Generally, residential locations in the north-western, southern, and south-eastern borders of the study area had poor physical access and a lower HSC (Fig. 3).
The plants actively recruit south of the border and in poor Hispanic neighborhoods on both coasts of the United States, drawing legions of immigrants to places barely big enough to register on state maps.
They seemed a far cry from a much older image of refugees crossing Indochinese borders: the poor and persecuted families who were scrambling for safety a generation ago.But the relief among these semi-skilled labourers was palpable.
Of 131 pregnancies enrolled to the study, 11 were excluded because of poor quality VDS due to obscured cardiac border.
