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Chad. By: Brandon Walker, Tom Renk, and Anthony Roggio. A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. GDP growth 13% in 2010 7% in 2012 GDP per capita $2,000 Exports $4.951 billion Imports $3.936 billion. DEVELOPING ISSUES. Unemployment rate 22.6% 80% of people live below poverty line Literacy rate 53%
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Chad By: Brandon Walker, Tom Renk, and Anthony Roggio
A DEVELOPING COUNTRY • GDP growth • 13% in 2010 • 7% in 2012 • GDP per capita • $2,000 • Exports • $4.951 billion • Imports • $3.936 billion
DEVELOPING ISSUES • Unemployment rate • 22.6% • 80% of people live below poverty line • Literacy rate • 53% • Life expectancy • 49.07 years • 223rd in world
THE BIGGEST ISSUE • Infant mortality rate • 91.94 deaths/1,000 births • 6th in world • Maternal mortality rate • 1,100 deaths/100,000 live births • 1st in world • 76% of women are unassisted during child birth • 5.89 births per woman
Maternal Mortality Rate 1995 1990 2005 2000
CAUSES OF POOR MATERNAL HEALTH Causes of Maternal Mortality • Haemorrhage • Ruptured blood vessel • Increases after multiple births • Poor health care • 1 in 4 births are delivered with professional help • Other plaguing diseases “Research has shown that approximately 80 per cent of maternal deaths could be averted if women had access to essential maternity and basic health-care services” -Unicef.org
EFFECTS OF POOR MATERNAL HEALTH • Maternal mortality • Chad: 1st in world • Infant mortality rate • 1 out of 5 children will die before the age of five • Newborns suffer • Transmission of fatal diseases
WHAT IS ALREADY BEING DONE? • Unicef • Help improve the health and education of children and their mothers • Provided feeding for more than 9,500 malnourished children • 45,000 mosquito nets to children and pregnant women
OUR SOLUTION • Increase the number of assisted childbirths • Doctor to population ratio is 1:25,000 • U.S. 1:300 • Approximately 500,000 babies born per year • 380,000 are unassisted • About 1,000 unassisted per day Doctors are limited in Chad today
OUR SOLUTION • Requirements • At least two years of professional experience • Availability for minimum 9-12 months • Average salary: $18,000/year • Doctors Without Borders • Recruits medical and non-medical aid workers to provide assistance in nearly 60 countries • Seeking nurse-midwives/certified midwives
OUR SOLUTION • Doctors Without Borders • $18,000 per year • Hire 1,000 doctors for two years • $36 million • Construct 600 basic health centers • $21,500 (Material: $12,500; 40 people at $5 per day x 45 days: $9,000) • Total: $12.9 million $48.9 million
REMAINING MONEY • $1.1 million remaining • Birthing kits • A plastic sheet, soap, 2 gloves, sterile scalpel blade, 3 cords and 5 gauze squares • Provides a safe birthing environment • 550,000 at $2 each
WORKS CITED • "United Nations Millennium Development Goals." UN News Center. UN, n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/. • "Central Intelligence Agency." CIA. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <https:// www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cd.html>. • "Chad Statistics." UNICEF. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http:// www.unicef.org/infobycountry/chad-statistics>. • "Work With MSF." Doctors Without Borders. MSF-USA Association, n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/>. • "World Birth Aid Clean Birth Kit." World Birth Aid RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 June 2013. <http://worldbirthaid.org/birth-kit/>.