Now Africa, Sub Saharan Africa

Most of them are in sub Saharan Africa.

Arab states, South Asia and sub Saharan Africa.

Here you have Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia,

The dark blue here is sub Saharan Africa.

There is such a difference within Sub Saharan Africa.

And this is true across sub Saharan Africa, actually.

It's interesting to see the enormous diversity within sub Saharan Africa.

I was working in sub Saharan Africa, mostly, at the time

By 1,500 years ago, agriculture dominated most of sub Saharan Africa.

Sub Saharan Africa, and even our own San Francisco Bay Area.

This is the ratio of optometrists to people in sub Saharan Africa.

Of these, two thirds, 22 million are living in sub Saharan Africa.

In many parts of sub Saharan Africa, the droughts are so much worse.

Time has come to stop thinking about sub Saharan Africa as one place.

So I want to talk to you today about AlDS in sub Saharan Africa.

Sub Saharan Africa has been the area of the world most resistant to growth.

I can go here and I can split sub Saharan Africa into its countries.

Like, you know, just as you get into the malaria zone, sub Saharan Africa.

We've come up with this great idea mobile health clinics, widely distributed throughout sub Saharan Africa.

But let me split sub Saharan Africa. Health is there and better health is up there.

If what we're worried about is poverty and development, sub Saharan Africa is far more important.

So look at the average here this is the average for all of sub Saharan Africa.

There are eight countries in sub Saharan Africa that have their death rates cut by 75 percent.

There's always one continent left out, the assumption being that sub Saharan Africa had no religious beliefs.

I would say that sub Saharan Africa has done best in the world during the last 50 years.

Working with universities all over sub Saharan Africa, and we are inviting them to learn social innovation skills.

Malaria kills almost 900,000 people every year, most of them in Sub Saharan Africa, most of them under five.

In sub Saharan Africa, for example, farmers spread east and south from present day Cameroon around 5,000 years ago.

In fact, there are some countries in sub Saharan Africa where there's one optometrist for eight million of the population.

Conversely, at the bottom left of the graph, are countries that are not producing much well being typically, sub Saharan Africa.

Ghana was the first sub Saharan country to gain its independence.

Two years later we started doing a project on developing mobile health clinics in sub Saharan Africa, responding to the HlV AlDS pandemic.

And the Clinton Foundation and WHO believe that they can treat three million people worldwide by 2005 two million in sub Saharan Africa.

I'm sure you must be asking yourselves what makes developing countries, especially those in sub Saharan Africa, so attractive for these HlV clinical trials?

And suddenly they pulled out sheets of paper and were trying to figure out, How do we survey the population of Sub Saharan Africa?

There are 1.4 million pregnant women in low and middle income countries living with HlV and of these, 90 percent are in sub Saharan Africa.

The truth is sub Saharan Africa has 24 percent of the global disease burden and yet only three percent of the world's health care workers.

In Pakistan, in lots of sub Saharan Africa, again you can see democracy and elections are compatible with corrupt governments, with states that are unstable and dangerous.

Sub Saharan Africa largely fits this description, with 22 million people living with HlV, an estimated 70 percent of the 30 million people who are infected worldwide.

If you know something more, you probably know that Uganda, to date, is the only country in sub Saharan Africa that has had success in combating the epidemic.

Next, let's add Asia in red, the Middle East and North Africa in green, sub Saharan Africa in blue, black is South America, purple is Central America, and then in pukey yellow, we have North America,

So throughout this talk I've mentioned a few times the special case of Uganda, and the fact that it's the only country in sub Saharan Africa with successful prevention.

50 of the children in Sub Saharan Africa are in the hospital because they have some kind of disease that has been caught by a lack of access to sanitation.

I noticed that every sub Saharan African health worker that I was working with had a Hotmail account.