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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
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Have you visited a developing country?
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“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
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In this class we will often compare
the US
and Haiti
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US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$771$51749
World Bank 2012
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US Haiti
Per capitanational income
$771$51749
World Bank 2012
That’s ~$2/day on average!
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What’s the difference betweenmean and median?
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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
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US Haiti
Per capitanational income
This has consequences
Life expectancy 78 62
UNICEF 2010
$771$51749
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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%
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What kills folks in the US?
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In contrast in the US we die of diseases of lifestyle or old age
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Poverty has its advantages: Haiti ranks 158th
In deaths due to traffic accidents
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Few US deaths are caused by infectious diseaseand most of those occur among the elderly or infirm
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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
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The picture’s even worse for kids under 5
http://www.cdc.gov/safewater/disease.html
http://cambodianchildrenshealth.wordpress.com/
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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
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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
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Stats from WHO; 2012
TB KILLS1.3 MILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAROVER 3500 EVERY DAYONE PERSON EVERY 27 SECONDS
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Two billion people--one third of the world’s population--
are infected with the bacteria that causes TB
World Lung Foundation (2008)
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New infections occur at a rate of one per second!
World Lung Foundation (2008)
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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
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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.
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SOURCES: World Health Organization; Doctors Without Borders | THE WASHINGTON POST
It’s not who you know, its where you live.
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TB is present world-wide but Incidence rates differ dramatically
CDC2009
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80% of all TB cases are concentrated in 22 “high-burden” countries
STOP TB partnership
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Why does the map ofrates of drug resistant TB
look different?
CDC
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In contrast,
9945 casesIn 2012!
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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!
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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!
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Loss of productivity totals4-7% of total GDP in hardest hit nations.
WHO and World Bank
And that’s not all!
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Our nation provides developmentassistance to the developing world
www.globalissues.org
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But we are not doing our share……
www.globalissues.org
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nor are we meeting the goal to which we agreed
www.globalissues.org
Promised
Delivered