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Chad is an incredible country that has faced many struggles to rise up since achieving independence. Located in Central Africa, Chad is a geographically diverse country with a tropical south, barren deserts in the north, broad arid plains in the center and mountains like Emi Koussi in the northwest which makes up Chads 1.284 million sq km. Chad is full of different cultures and religions, most of Chadians are Muslim, Catholic, protestant or animast. As well as 129 languages including French, Arabic, and Sara. Chad uses its distinct geographical location to attain natural resources such as petroleum, uranium, kaolin, fish, gold, limestone, sand and gravel for its population of 11,412,107. Though Chad is rich in natural resources, the …show more content…

The cause of Chad's low maternal morality rate is derived from its poor health system, there is less then one qualified health worker per 1,000. Also the government uses only three percent of their budget on health, the reason why the government only gives three percent to health is because Chad is one of the poorest countries in the world, people are struggling to eat especially in the rural areas which is not good for mothers or pregnant woman. This poverty in chad goes back to decades of internal conflict and political instability and frequent drought in 1970-1980 which has further weakened the …show more content…

Many woman and girls in Chad are not attended to during their pregnancy, with about 23.7% of woman being attended to by skilled doctors. The reason their is such a limitation on accessing health care for woman and girls is because of poverty. Thier are so many people who live below the poverty line, approximately 80% of Chadians do. Due to this high number of people below the poverty line their is no access or a limited access to health care for woman. This high rate of poverty in Chad causes a chain reaction affecting contraceptive prelevance as well as education. Chad has a low percentage of literacy, about 31.8%, and girls in Chad have a very low enrollment in secondary school. There are large gender inequality for example per school compilation rates for girls are estimated at 25%. This lack of education is very serious which has large consequences such as high maternal mortality rate. But education is not the only serious aspect to this predicament but as well as early marriages, with marriages being arranged at early as 11 or 12. This problem is a very dangerous and serious threat to woman and girls in Chad, as well as to the whole

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