Central Asian youth in crisis.LONDON -- The poverty, illiteracy, drug use and despair that plague Central Asia's huge population of young people could foment fo·ment tr.v. fo·ment·ed, fo·ment·ing, fo·ments 1. To promote the growth of; incite. 2. To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation. serious trouble in the future without focused national and international attention, the International Crisis Group warns. Its report, Youth in Central Asia: Losing the New Generation, ICG ICG indocyanine green. says the struggling economies and crisis-riddled education systems that have suffered since post-Soviet independence have left young people with few job prospects and little hope, a state of affairs that has left an opening for escapism es·cap·ism n. The tendency to escape from daily reality or routine by indulging in daydreaming, fantasy, or entertainment. through drug use, crime or membership in radical Islamist or Christian groups. The HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infection rate is soaring and many young people are emigrating from the region. Approximately half the population of Central Asia is under 30. |
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