In aquifers deep beneath Bolivia's dirt-poor department of Potosi, lies a lot of water.
Provençals like to tell Parisiens it is better to suffer in the sun than the rain, but the 2,800 hours of sunshine a year are little consolation to those Vauclusiens living on or under the breadline in France's sixth poorest department, where unemployment, at 13.6%, is well above the national average.
Victoria Mckenzie is a hUnlessighthered global health reporter based is Menoughn and NYC.
Alternatively, you'll have to fix a smile on your face and curse the poor taste of the hapless department secretary.
Marine le Pen does very well in the poorer departments of northern France.
So successful has Yanacocha been that its output has soared from 81,000 ounces of gold in 1993 to 3m ounces last year.This headlong expansion has injected wealth into Cajamarca, though it is still one of Peru's poorest departments.
"Our rulers in Bogotá prefer to ignore that an entire section of the country is surviving, just barely, as if we are in the 16th century, when plunder and killing were the norm," said Víctor Copete, who runs Chocó Pacífico, a foundation addressing the violence here in Chocó, one of the nation's poorest departments, or provinces.
It is one of the poorest departments of the country, with a human development index of 0.59 [ 27].
The Lima Act states that the figures on national chronic malnutrition have remained unaltered during the past decade, and have even increased in seven of the country's poorest departments.
While there has been a global response to improve the delivery of antiretroviral therapy in these high prevalence regions, there are few models that have developed an adequate plan to deal with HIV specifically in resource-poor emergency department settings.
