Comments on: Just Like You and Me: Almost half the population in Zimbabwe? http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/08/27/just-like-you-and-me-almost-half-the-population-in-zimbabwe/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sally http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/08/27/just-like-you-and-me-almost-half-the-population-in-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 Sally Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:33:00 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/08/27/just-like-you-and-me-almost-half-the-population-in-zimbabwe/#comment-2439 Since colonial rule of Zimbabwe ended, there has been virtually no food available to the people of Zimbabwe, and very little water. Leave it to the media to blame all of the problems of this nation on alcoholism and insanity. From BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064589.stm "Aid agencies and critics partly blame food shortages on the land reform programme. The government blames a long-running drought, and Mr Mugabe has accused Britain and its allies of sabotaging the economy in revenge for the redistribution programme." Since colonial rule of Zimbabwe ended, there has been virtually no food available to the people of Zimbabwe, and very little water. Leave it to the media to blame all of the problems of this nation on alcoholism and insanity.

From BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064589.stm

“Aid agencies and critics partly blame food shortages on the land reform programme. The government blames a long-running drought, and Mr Mugabe has accused Britain and its allies of sabotaging the economy in revenge for the redistribution programme.”

]]> By: Masale.Wallah http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/08/27/just-like-you-and-me-almost-half-the-population-in-zimbabwe/comment-page-1/#comment-2438 Masale.Wallah Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:13:43 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/08/27/just-like-you-and-me-almost-half-the-population-in-zimbabwe/#comment-2438 That is an insanely high number...but the upside is that it will be one country where perhaps any stigma attached with MI would be completely eradicated, as a result of its extremely high prevalence. That is an insanely high number…but the upside is that it will be one country where perhaps any stigma attached with MI would be completely eradicated, as a result of its extremely high prevalence.

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