SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sub-Saharan Africa mean? 

• SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (noun)
  The noun SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert

  Familiarity information: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Black Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Sub-Saharan Africa" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

 Context examples 

It is transmitted by flies and is endemic in various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.

(African Trypanosomiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

Dairy products, eggs and white meat were very expensive in most low-income and lower middle–income countries, while most fruit and vegetables were relatively expensive in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

Most cases can be successfully treated, but nearly 1 million still die of the disease every year, including about 800,000 children under age 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Therefore, they explored the potential of using light to control mosquitoes’ feeding behaviour by exposing Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — a key vector of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa — to multiple pulses of bright light, especially in the night, when they are most likely to feed on human blood.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Some 1.8–4.1 billion people living in the developing countries of South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are vulnerable to heat-related stress, and lack access to technology to cool their living spaces, according to new estimates.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)