- The poorest paid 85% out-of-pocket for their health care cost in 2006.
- More than 60% of medication in low-income countries is only available through the private sector, where the cost is more than six times the international market price.
- Two doctors tended to every 10,000 residents in Africa, while 32 did that same job in Europe.
- There are 112 million underweight children worldwide; nine million died before age five.
- More than half million women die every year in pregnancy or in childbirth complication. 99% of them in developing countries. This rate barely changed from 1990 to 2005, the most recent year in which data was collected.
- The maternal mortality rate in Afghanistan and niger in 2005 was 1800/100,000 live brith attended by skilled health personnel in those countries were 14% and 18% repectively.
- More than three billion people were risk of malaria in 2006. 27 countries reported having malaria infection and/ or deaths from 1990 to 2006.
- Thrity- three million people were living with HIV less than one-third requiring HIV treatment in Africa is receiving medicines.
- Thiry- six countries more than 25% of their youth smoked.
- Fifty-four countries reported less than half their populations used sanitation facalities.
- People living in Southeast asia spent US$31 each on health while those in America spent on average more than $2600 each in 2006.
- Forty percent of children's death in Africa occured within the first 28 days in 2004, most in the first week.
Source IRIN [ Forward magazine ]
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