Poverty and poor health in urban areas
Posted June 20th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health, Poverty and Income Inequality, Sub-Saharan AfricaUN-HABITAT’s report, State of the World’s Cities 2006/7, finds that residents of urban slums in developing countries are as bad or worse off than their rural counterparts in terms of poverty and health. In sub-Saharan Africa, rates of child malnutrition are as high in slums as in rural areas, and women in slums are more likely to contract HIV/AIDS than women in rural areas.
