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Navigating an International Research Elective in a Resource-Poor Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Jorina Elbers
Jorina Elbers*
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Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
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In the fall of 2008, I completed a 2-month international elective and traveled from Toronto, Canada to Zambia. Zambia is a peaceful, land-locked country in sub-Saharan Africa, neighboring Zimbabwe,Angola, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zambia ranks number 164 out of 182 in the United Nation's Human Development Index (2009), with 64.3% of the nation's population living below the World Bank poverty threshold of $1 a day. The estimated adult prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is 15%, with greater than 50% of the population less than 18 years old, and an average lifeexpectancy of 42 years (Unicef, 2007).

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 909 - 911
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Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2010