Latin America and the Caribbean

While no strict international regulatory agreement has been ratified, a common set of guidelines has been proposed to the governments of the 

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The policy and approaches towards biosafety in developed countries are not necessarily the most adequate for developing countries. There is therefore a need for adapting them to the local circumstances, on the basis of the experience of the most advanced countries. This can be achieved best on a regional basis, due to the lack of national expertise and resources, as the cooperative action of the Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, the Organization of American States, the International Office of Epizootics and the US Department of Agriculture in this matter shows. 

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AMRO AIDS and STI - Average Prices for One Year Treatment with Antiretrovirals in Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean survey by Pan American Health Organization of ARV Therapy in Latin American countries. 

Latin America and the Caribbean have approximately 17.4 million child workers. 

Every country in Latin America and the Caribbean has at some time developed a national malaria control programme. In the past, these programmes were responsible for applying most of the insecticides used in public health. However, conventional indoor residual applications have now declined. Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have been used to a limited extent and several countries have used space spray applications as an alternative or supplement to residual applications. In southern Mexico, low-volume residual application of insecticides using motorized back-pack UL sprayers has been evaluated for malaria and dengue control. 

REGIONAL DISASTER INFORMATION CENTER— LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (CRID) ... 

Latin America and the Caribbean Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, and Venezuela ... 

Whitten, Norman, and Arlene Torres, eds. 1998. Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Social Dynamics and Cultural Tran formations. Bloomington Indiana University Press. 

The number of malnourished in the world during 2000/2002 was 852 million, about 815 million of them in the developing countries. About 61% of the malnourished were in Asia, 24% in SSA, and the rest in Latin America and elsewhere. About 33% of the population in SSA, 16% in Asia and Pacific, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 10% in Near East and North Africa were malnourished in 2000/02 [1]. 

TORAL-GRANDA V (2008) Population status, fisheries and trade of sea cucumbers in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Toral-Granda V, LovateUi A and Vasconcel-los M (eds). Sea Cucumbers. A Global Review of Fisheries and Trade, Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 516. Rome FAO, 211-229. 

Orphans. There are l43 million orphans (children who have lost one or both parents) in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean of these, 16 million are double orphans who have lost both parents. In some countries, as many as 15 percent of all children are orphans (UNAIDS/ UNICEF/USAID 2004)... 

SOURCES United States Under 2005a Latin America and the Caribbean Lindert, Skoufias and Shapiro 2006 Europe and Central Asia Tesliuc and ethers forthcoming. 

Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, Selected Years, 2001-4... 

The information from developing countries is scarcer, as only a few programs and countries have tried to measure the incidence of EFC, and measures to control EFC are less uniformly developed. A review of accountability in CCT programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank 2007c) did not measure EFC as such, but did document widespread use of a range of effective control tools. Elsewhere, the results are not always so encouraging. 

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