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[edit] Education and health
Education at state-run schools is free, but books and uniforms are not provided so many school age children from poor families are still exluded from education.[1] Of those who start attending school, only half continue to through to the sixth and final year of primary education, a problem exacurbated by the high proportion of child-headed households and families' need for children to carry out domestic work.[2] The educational system is a mixture of British and French precedents[3] with most instruction in English or French.[4] Cameroon has one of the highest school attendance rates in Africa.[5] Girls attend school less regularly than boys do because of cultural attitudes, domestic duties, early marriage and pregnancy, and sexual harassment. Although attendance rates are higher in the south,[5] a disproportionate number of teachers are stationed there, leaving northern schools chronically understaffed.[6]
The quality of health care is generally low.[7] Outside the major cities, facilities are often dirty and poorly equipped.[8] Endemic diseases include dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis, malaria, meningitis, schistosomiasis, and sleeping sickness.[9] The HIV/AIDS seroprevalence rate is estimated at 5.4% for those aged 15–49,[10] although a strong stigma against the illness keeps the number of reported cases artificially low.[11] Traditional healers remain a popular alternative to Western medicine.[12]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Briggs and Booth 27.
- ^ There are not or subsidised, private and religious facilities.<ref>Mbaku 15.</li> <li id="cite_note-2">'''[[#cite_ref-2|^]]''' DeLancey and DeLancey 105–6.</li> <li id="cite_note-3">'''[[#cite_ref-3|^]]''' Mbaku 16.</li> <li id="cite_note-Mbaku_15">'''[[#cite_ref-Mbaku_15_1|^]]''' <strong class="error">Cite error: Invalid <code><ref></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code>Mbaku_15</code></strong></li> <li id="cite_note-Human_Rights_Report">'''[[#cite_ref-Human_Rights_Report_0|^]]''' <strong class="error">Cite error: Invalid <code><ref></code> tag; no text was provided for refs named <code>Human_Rights_Report</code></strong></li> <li id="cite_note-6">'''[[#cite_ref-6|^]]''' DeLancey and DeLancey 21.</li> <li id="cite_note-West_64-7">'''[[#cite_ref-West_64_7-0|^]]''' West 64.</li> <li id="cite_note-8">'''[[#cite_ref-8|^]]''' West 58–60.</li> <li id="cite_note-9">'''[[#cite_ref-9|^]]''' "Cameroon", UNAIDS.</li> <li id="cite_note-10">'''[[#cite_ref-10|^]]''' DeLancey and DeLancey 21.</li> <li id="cite_note-11">'''[[#cite_ref-11|^]]''' Lantum and Monono 14.</li></ol></ref>
