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“ The more there are suffering, then the more natural their sufferings appear. Who wants to prevent the fish in the sea from getting wet? Bertolt Brecht. $2.00. Have you visited a developing country?. “ There are still around 1 billion people living at the margins of survival - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“The more there are suffering, then the more natural their sufferings appear. Who wants to prevent the fish in the sea from getting wet?
Bertolt Brecht
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Have you visited a developing country?
“There are still around 1 billion people living at the margins of survival on less than US$1 a day, with 2.6 billion—40% of the world’s population—living on less than US$2 a day.”
2007 Human Development Report (HDR) United Nations Development Program
In this class we will often compare
the US
and Haiti
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$771$51749
World Bank 2012
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$771$51749
World Bank 2012
That’s ~$2/day on average!
What’s the difference betweenmean and median?
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$771
% of householdIncome--bottom 40%
16%
46%% of householdIncome--top 20%
8%
63%
And most Haitians aren’t even “average”!
UNICEF 2010
$51749
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
This has consequences
Life expectancy 78 62
UNICEF 2010
$771$51749
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$650$47140
This has consequences
Life expectancy 78 62
UNICEF 2010
Chances of dying Before age 1 7.6%0.7%
What kills folks in the US?
In contrast in the US we die of diseases of lifestyle or old age
Poverty has its advantages: Haiti ranks 158th
In deaths due to traffic accidents
Few US deaths are caused by infectious diseaseand most of those occur among the elderly or infirm
Leading causes of death in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia for persons age 0-44 (World Health Organization)
In the developing world treatableinfectious diseases remain big killers
The picture’s even worse for kids under 5
http://www.cdc.gov/safewater/disease.html
http://cambodianchildrenshealth.wordpress.com/
However, as we’ll see, with a concerted effort
we can move in the right direction!
HIV/AIDs2002
New casesDeaths
3 million 5.3 million
20121.6 million 2.3 million
www.amfar.org
Leading causes of death in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia for persons age 0-44 (World Health Organization)
Let’s use tuberculosis--TB--as an example
Stats from WHO; 2012
TB KILLS1.3 MILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAROVER 3500 EVERY DAYONE PERSON EVERY 27 SECONDS
Two billion people--one third of the world’s population--
are infected with the bacteria that causes TB
World Lung Foundation (2008)
New infections occur at a rate of one per second!
World Lung Foundation (2008)
Left untreated, a person with active TBwill infect 10-15 other people per year
World Lung Foundation (2008) and http://pathport.vbi.vt.edu/pathinfo/pathogens/Tuberculosis_2.html
Leading causes of death in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia for persons age 0-44 (World Health Organization)
It’s not who you know, its where you live.
SOURCES: World Health Organization; Doctors Without Borders | THE WASHINGTON POST
It’s not who you know, its where you live.
TB is present world-wide but Incidence rates differ dramatically
CDC2009
80% of all TB cases are concentrated in 22 “high-burden” countries
STOP TB partnership
Why does the map ofrates of drug resistant TB
look different?
CDC
In contrast,
9945 casesIn 2012!
Even with treatment, the average TB patient loses 3-4 months of work, and up to 30% of yearly household earnings.
WHO and World Bank
And that’s not all!
This robs the world's poorest communities of an estimated US$12 billion in lost income
WHO and World Bank
And that’s not all!
Loss of productivity totals4-7% of total GDP in hardest hit nations.
WHO and World Bank
And that’s not all!
Our nation provides developmentassistance to the developing world
www.globalissues.org
But we are not doing our share……
www.globalissues.org
nor are we meeting the goal to which we agreed
www.globalissues.org
Promised
Delivered