Post on 23-Jan-2016
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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
“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
$450$43400
UNICEF 2005
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$450$43400
That’s <$1.25/day on average!
UNICEF 2005
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$450$43400
% of householdIncome--bottom 40%
16%
40%% of householdIncome--top 20%
9%
63%
And most Haitian’s aren’t even average!
UNICEF 2005
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$450$43400
This has consequences
Life expectancy 78 52
UNICEF 2005
US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$450$43400
This has consequences
Life expectancy 78 52
UNICEF 2005
Chances of dying Before age 1 10%0.9%
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
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; slide from TBAlliance
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
CDC
80% of all TB cases are concentrated in 22 “high-burden” countries
STOP TB partnership
Rates of drug resistant TB
CDC
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 nor meeting the goal to which we agreed
www.globalissues.org