Haití–República Dominicana
HAITI Cuba Nord-Ouest Nord Nord-Est Artibonite Centre Port-au-Prince Grand’Anse ^ Nippes Est Sud Sud-Est Dominican 0525 0Miles Republic Sources: Second Administrative Level Boundaries Dataset (SALB), a dataset that forms part of the United Nations Geographic Database, available at: http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_home.htm, and the Digital Chart of the World (DCW) located at: http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw. The boundaries and names shown here are intended for illustration purposes only, and do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the Pan American Health Organization. aiti’s 27,700 km2 take up the western half of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is divided into 10 departments (Nippes became Hthe 10th in 2004), 41 arrondissements (similar to districts), 135 communes (similar to parishes), and 565 communal sections. GENERAL CONTEXT AND HEALTH dren in this age group attends primary school in rural areas, DETERMINANTS compared with upwards of 7 of every 10 in urban areas. There is no important difference in net primary enrollment rates for girls Social, Political, and Economic Determinants and boys. In 2004, Haiti—the first black nation and the first country to This is not the case with secondary-school enrollment, where gain independence in Latin America—celebrated its independ- the gross enrollment ratio for girls is 37%, while that for boys is ence bicentennial. After nearly two centuries of dictatorship and 45%. There is a wide gap in the gross secondary-school enroll- intermittent attempts at democracy beginning in the late 1980s, ment ratios of children from more affluent households (71%) the country has suffered recurrent periods of political instability.
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