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The silent crisis / directed by Amanda Feldon ; TVE.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 5 ; program 9.
- Life series 5 ; 9
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Central African Republic.
- Public health.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Central African Republic--Economic conditions.
- Central African Republic.
- Central African Republic--Social conditions.
- Central African Republic--Politics and government--1979-2003.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English and French with English voice-overs.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The Central African Republic is Africa's forgotten country. A landlocked former French colony of just under four million people, the country is struggling to avoid economic and social chaos. The Central African Republic is one of the least developed countries: few people there live beyond 40, 13 percent of children die in infancy and only a third of the population has access to safe drinking water. There is just one hospital bed for every one thousand people and one nurse to every 8,000 people. Many of the CAR's problems could be solved by money. But appeals for aid have fallen largely on deaf ears. Only a handful of aid agencies continue to work there, and the amount of aid it gets is pitiful compared to other sub-Saharan countries. In 2003, it received just $12.9 USD per person. Life interviewed the President, Francois Bozize, who confirms that health is the country's top priority. Bozize has pledged to restore the country's national unity and security, but foreign governments have been slow to respond to his repeated requests for assistance and support.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Sally Dunbar.
- Credits:
- Editor, Jan Langford ; executive producer, Brenda Kelly ; series producer, Dick Bower.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2005; previously released in 2006.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l5sil Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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