The viral suppression rates in both adult and children for up to four years after starting first line ART in a setting where nearly half of the population living under poverty line are affected by various co-morbid infectious diseases and where access to ART is largely restricted to two drug classes is encouraging.
"The important thing is to look at the section of population under the poverty line and how it has changed".
PAGE A6 A FILMIC SAFE HAVEN IN MARSEILLE France's second-largest city, Marseille, prides itself on being a rough melting pot of differences, but with unemployment rising quickly and nearly 40percentt of the population under the poverty line, unrest is near the surface of this port city.
For example, the social inclusion agenda of the European Union had been based on criteria such as the top/bottom earners ratio or the share of population under the poverty line before and after social transfers (Atkinson et al. 2002).
The first component (human demographic PC1) explained 46.7% of the variation and loaded highly negatively with median household income and loaded positively with percentage of the population under the poverty line and the percentage of the county population that was unemployed (Table 2).
The population under the poverty-line is exempted from paying the fees by a system called "Health Equity Fund HEFEF).
The level of poverty of the Mali population (50% under poverty level) makes it difficult to single out specific needs for crisis-affected people: IOM reports that 80% of IDPs have been contacted to assess their needs, but up to 60% have not received any specific support4.
The population dropped; poverty increased.
Currently the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty, the earthquake further inflicted $7.8 billion in damage and caused the country's GDP to contract.
A section on Bulgaria - where 40percentt of the population lives under the poverty line, or are at risk of poverty, according to the World Bank - highlights the media's irresponsible reporting on Syrian refugees in the country that led to Bulgarians' negative and hostile reactions to the presence of the foreigners.
