One pregnant woman dies of complications every 60 seconds.
One child dies of Malaria in Africa every 29 seconds.
Someone in the world dies of tuberculosis every 18 seconds.
One person is affected with HIV every 6.4 seconds.
The United States ranks last in foreign aid development giving as a percentage of national income.
- Time Magazine
3 comments:
here's another:
30,000 children day each day from hunger/malnutrition worldwide
Those are sad I had no idea TB was that rampant We rarely see it at our hospital It's sad that our eyes are shut to the health issues in other parts of the world
once again, I am ashamed of how the U.S. and especially myself is so ignorant and apathetic towards the way the world really is...
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