Reports from Developing Countries

Welcome to this edition of Reports from Developing Countries here on China Radio International. I'm Zheng Chenguang in Beijing.

Students in Senegal reading from new textbooks. [Photo Credit: R. Nyberg, USAID/Senegal]

• Experts have called for more health education for young people in Africa.
• The World Bank financially supports Vietnam to tackle bird flu.
• India increases quotas for scholarships to Tanzania.

Stay tuned.

The world population of older persons will triple in the next 25 years, mostly in the developing world.

While the UN population and development commission is mulling how to manage this dramatic change, some of the commission experts are looking into challenges posed by nations, especially in Africa, where the majority of the population is young.

Nyovani Madise, a statistician of African Population and Health Center in Nairobi, told UN Radio's Diane Bailey young people need health education.

[audio clip of the UN report]

That was a UN Radio's Diane Bailey talking to an expert who called for more health education for young Africans.

Now let's take a look at other news from the developing world.

The World Bank says it will offer financial assistance to Vietnam to contain the country's bird flu outbreaks.

The three-year project is worth 38 million US dollars.

The World Bank will provide preferential credit of 20 million dollars to the country. The EU will grant 10 million dollars, Japan five million and Vietnam reciprocal capital of three million dollars.

The country has so far detected over 2,000 bird flu outbreaks among poultry, the highest number in the world. The World Bank says the direct cost of bird flu in Vietnam is estimated at 200 million dollars so far.

The Indian government has increased its annual quota for scholarships offered to Tanzanians to 100, helping with vocational training in the east African country.

The scholarships fund training in agriculture, rural and urban development, information technology, banking and financial management, small and medium enterprises and mass communication.

With the increase, Tanzania now has the largest number of trainees benefiting from the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation training program.

Tanzania already has more than 1,200 graduates from the program.