Written on October 15, 2008 – 10:02 pm | by Alex |
5 Worst Facts About Health And Poverty
You may know that today is Blog Action Day 2008 against poverty. You also may know that poverty is one of the most big problems of being healthy.
Poverty is the number one killer in the world today, outranking smoking as the leading cause of death.
Mike Rowson
- Every year, more than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth — 99 percent occur in the developing world.
- Almost 4 million babies die annually in the developing world during their first week of life. These deaths are often the result of limited prenatal health care and births spaced closely together.
- Diarrhea kills about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children under 5.
- By the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people were infected with HIV, with over 95 percent of those living in developing countries. Approximately 18.5 million people with HIV are women and 3 million are children under age 15.
- Malaria threatens the lives of more than 2.2 billion people in over 100 countries, about 40 percent of the world’s population. Each year, an estimated 300 million to 500 million clinical cases of malaria are recorded.
These facts are from www.care.org
So you can imagine how bad is to be in poverty and take action!
Read also some other interesting blog posts about poverty:
- 17 [Great] Images of Poverty
- Why I Think the Internet Is Key to Combating Poverty
- My Poverty-Fighting Superheroes
- Two Great Charities at Work to Beat Poverty
- Use Your Business Success To Help Eliminate Poverty – Blog Action Day
- Just do something
- 30 Simple Ways to Battle Poverty With Technology
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By Tom Parker on Oct 15, 2008 | Reply
It’s hard to imagine that diarrhea is so dangerous when it’s such a small problem in developed countries such as the UK.
By Mr K on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
Good post – it’s been an amazing day checking out others posts and comments.
By fas on Oct 18, 2008 | Reply
thanx for sharing
By Sunglasses on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
We could have eliminated poverty long time ago if we had honest and sincere leaders. Corruption occurs most often in developing countries. Poverty will continue to be a major issue in the 21st century until each nation is led by noble politicians.
By Mercola on Oct 31, 2008 | Reply
So sad to hear that on the top 5 list kids are the most affected. Sunglasses is right, if the government really care to the people for sure poverty is not the real problem. But this government only loves their pocket, just collecting all the money from taxes. the whole world has a corrupt government. sorry for of all us.
By Anti Aging Blog on Nov 7, 2008 | Reply
Nice article. I would like to add a bit with the HIV fact. HIV is spreading at an alarming rate, specially in Africa and some Asian countries.
South Africa’s Population Growth Expected To Decrease by 12 Million by 2015 Because of HIV/AIDS
Sierra Leone’s population has decreased over the past few years because of HIV.
By shiitake on Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
I don’t know if this is the answer, but if we eliminate intellectual property rights we eliminate poverty. If everyone has access to the best information and technology, no one would be poor!
By Mercola - All Natural Vitamins on May 14, 2009 | Reply
Greetings,
Diarhea and Malaria are the all times health problems of the world. Not including the problem we have now about the virus of Swine Flu. Hope this problems that we are encounter could end up as many of lives are already wasted due to this health problems that we have. By the way, thanks for sharing your insights about this posted article and hope to see more updates coming from you. keep it up…