Countries: Cameroon
Variables: SMPP-PRACTICE-1

“Hospital workers say obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labor without access to timely, high-quality medical treatment. The disease leaves women and girls leaking urine, feces or both, and often leads to chronic medical problems, depression, social isolation and deepening poverty, medical staff members say…Debong said she is urging parents, husbands, clerics, community leaders and traditional rulers to educate others that obstetric fistula is not a curse or divine punishment for wrongdoing. She said she wants communities to encourage women who have gone into hiding due to the disease to seek treatment…Many sufferers are accused of witchcraft and abandoned...more

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1

“Boyo Maurine is with the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services program, a nonprofit group that works with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The group educates communities about obstetric fistula and encourages women to seek treatment…In 2020, the U.N. launched a global commitment to fistula prevention and treatment, including surgical repair and social reintegration. The campaign hopes to end fistula by 2030, while transforming the lives of thousands of women and girls” (12, 14).

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

“The Cameron government is trying to end the stigma and discrimination attached to the condition [of fistula] through education programs” (11).

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

“As the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula approaches…, scores of women who have been treated for the medical condition are encouraging their peers in northern Cameroon to get help...Now former patients and aid groups are telling families fistula can be treated. The network of women who have been successfully operated on for obstetric fistula in Cameroon's northern region say they are educating communities that it is a disease that can be treated. Hospital workers say obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labor without access to timely, high-quality medical treatment. The disease leaves women and girls leaking urine, feces...more

Countries: Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, D R Congo, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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Countries: Cameroon
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? Selling sex itself is illegal in Cameroon as is soliciting in a public place. (art 343 penal code) Is buying sex criminalised? Article 343 of the Penal Code can also be used to criminalise the buying of sex. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, procuring defined as "causing, aiding or facilitating the prostitution of another" is criminalised. Living on the earnings is also criminalised. (Art 294 of penal code)" (para 1-3).

Countries: Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, D R Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Countries: Angola, Bahamas, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, New Zealand, North Korea, Peru, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, D R Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

3

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Cameroon is 67.4% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Cameroon is 60.3 years for men and 64.5 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Cameroon, Zambia
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"33.8 births per 1000 population"

Countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Cameroon, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kosovo, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad/Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

2.0

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

Traditionally practiced by the Fulani and in Beti Customs, but these constitute a small portion of the overall prevalence even within the minority populations. Most ethnic groups condone the practice as it is seen as an outdated practice. (VC CODER COMMENT) "Alerted to the fact that they share close family ties, two lovebirds are determined to carry out their marriage project to the end in the district of Nkol-Afamba and despite the firm opposition of their group leader. It is a project of union visibly source of division which is profiled in the district of NKol-Afamba, region of the Center. The misfortune of the two lovers is that they are...more

Countries: Cameroon
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"In order to strengthen families within marriage, men are considered the head of the family. In this role, he makes decisions concerning all aspects of family and marriage life as well as the control of family property (Patriarchal family). However, legislative enactments have achieved equality between spouses in relation to decision-making, bringing-up children, divorce, inheritance, financial and matrimonial matters giving husband and wife equal powers of disposition and management of matrimonial property. In spite of the position of the law, the man in our African society remains the head and assumes his responsibility as the head of the family with some reservations" (3).