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Worst 3 places to be a mother are Afghanistan, Niger and Guinea-Bissau

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Top 3 places to be a mother are Norway, Australia and Iceland

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In 2008, Indian government introduced a programme in seven states which will give payments to parents when a girl reaches 18 and is not married

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Child brides are at higher risk of contracting HIV as their husbands are largely older men with more sexual experience

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40% of women in Ethiopia aged 15-49 use contraceptives, compared to only 14% in 2005

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74% of girls in Niger are married before 18

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In Somalia, 97.9% of girls and women aged 15-49 have undergone female genital mutilation

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25,000 girls are married each day

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Pregnant women living with both HIV and Syphilis are twice as likely to pass HIV on to their babies compared to a woman infected with HIV alone

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Prevalence rates of Syphilis among pregnant women can be as high as 17%

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Women and young children are amongst the most vulnerable people when it comes to co-infection of Syphilis and HIV

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In Liberia, 994 out of every 100,000 pregnancies ends in death

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5 to 10 million pregnant women of 136 million pregnancies worldwide have gestational diabetes each year.

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Adverse environmental conditions in the womb such as under nutrition, over nutrition or smoking is a significant cause of non-communicable diseases

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In Senegal, nearly 400 of every 100,000 pregnancies, ends in death

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One third of low-income women in Senegal lack access to modern family planning, contributing to the countries high maternal and newborn mortality rates.

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Japan has one of the lowest rates of maternal and child deaths in the world

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In sub-Saharan Africa, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is nearly four hundred times greater than it is in Japan

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In South Central Asia and Western Africa, 42 and 41 per cent of women aged 20-24 respectively, were married by 18

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In developing countries, nearly 10% of adolescent girls give birth each year, compared to less than 2% in developed countries

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In Peru, the rate of early childbearing is nearly six times greater among girls from the poorest households compared to the wealthiest

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In Zimbabwe, Senegal, and Colombia, more than one in five girls from rural areas are pregnant or have given birth by age 18

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The average number of births by women in industrialized countries is 1.7 compared to 7.1 by women in Niger

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In much of the world two thirds of married women, report using contraceptives whilst only one in five African women do

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Only 23% of Ghanaian women use modern contraceptives including condoms

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Women who experience near misses have serious complications that have long lasting physical and mental health outcomes

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Ghanaian women face a risk of maternal death 22 times that of women in developed countries

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Ghana reduced its maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births from 550 to 350 deaths from 2000 to 2010.

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1 in 3 women in developing countries give birth without medically trained attendants.

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Maternal mortality is an issue but women who nearly die but survive are much more common and their needs are not being addressed.

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More than half the women who die from pregnancy related complications are Africans.

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UN millennium development goal 5 calls for 75% reduction in maternal deaths between 1990 and 2015. At the current rate, Most of Latin America, much of central and South East Asia and nearly all of Sub Saharan Africa wont reach this goal till 2040.

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HIV prevalence among MSM in Abidjan is approximately 5 times as high as that of the general population

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HIV accounts for 20 percent of maternal mortality in Kenya

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In Latin America and the Caribbean, between 17% and 53% of women surveyed reported having been victims of physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner

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Some 13,000 Kenyan children contract HIV annually

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222 million women in developing countries are unable to exercise the human right to voluntary family planning

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Côte d’Ivoire’s adult HIV prevalence was estimated at 3.4% in 2009

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Worldwide, 15 million babies are born preterm (<37 weeks' gestation), with two decades of increasing rates in almost all countries with reliable data

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Every year, 1·1 million babies die from prematurity, and many survivors are disabled

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Kenya is among some 22 nations accounting for 90 percent of all pregnant women living with HIV

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1 in 2 countries unprepared to prevent and manage cancers

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In India, adolescent pregnancy was estimated to lead to “over $100 billion in lost income

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One-third of teen pregnancies end in abortion

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For every person over the age of 65 in today’s European Union, there are four people of working age but, by 2050, there will only be two

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Millions of domestic workers around the world remain excluded from protection enjoyed by other workers, says a new ILO report

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More than 52 million domestic workers worldwide

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An additional 61,000 people will not be treated for HIV/AIDS

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54,800 fewer TB patients will receive treatment, leading to 6,600 more TB deaths

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805,200 fewer pentavalent vaccines for children will be available through GAVI, leading to 8,500 more deaths from preventable diseases

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36,000 fewer people with tuberculosis (TB) will receive treatment, leading to 4,300 more deaths due to TB; 200 fewer people with multidrug-resistant TB will receive treatment

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1.2 million fewer insecticide-treated mosquito nets will be procured, leading to over3,100 deaths due to malaria; 2 million fewer people will receive treatment

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Funding for food, education, and livelihood assistance will not be available for 229,500 children

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64,700 fewer HIV-positive pregnant women will receive services to prevent mother-to-child transmission, leading to nearly 12,300 infants being infected with HIV

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HIV/AIDS treatment for 165,400 people will not be available, potentially leading to 37,700 more AIDS-related deaths and 74,300 more children becoming orphans

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7 in 10 children with malaria treated at home are mismanaged, contributing to 2000 deaths every day in Africa alone

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1.5 million fewer insecticide-treated mosquito nets will be available, leading to 4,000 deaths from malaria.

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In 2010, an estimated 219 million cases of Malaria occurred globally, while the disease killed about 660 000 people, mostly children under five years of age

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Microbicides are gels, creams, films or suppositories that can be internally applied to protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV

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Malaria is an entirely preventable and treatable vector-borne disease

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In 2011, Africa accounted for 69% of all individuals living with HIV/AIDS around the world, 92% of all pregnant women living with HIV and at least 90% of new infections among children

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Almost 40 percent of adolescents from the rural Eastern Cape had been sexually abused as children

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Timely access to lifesaving antiretroviral medicines added more than 9 million life-years between 1995 and 2011

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Africa remains a long way from the dream of an AIDS free generation

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Up to 5 million Africans unable to access antiretroviral medicines may die within two years without assistance

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Between 2008 and 2011, 40 transgender people were reported murdered in Honduras

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Africans dying of AIDS declined by 32% between 2005 and 2011

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Between 2009 and 2011, 24% fewer children contracted HIV

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South Africa scaled up access to lifesaving medicines by 75% in two years

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In 2011, Africa while accounting for less than 10 percent of the global populations represented at least two-thirds or more of various negative indices of HIV/AIDS

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Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver mainly caused by a viral infection

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There are five main hepatitis viruses referred to as types A, B, C, D and E that are of greatest health concern

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An estimated 220 million women and girls in developing countries lack access to contraceptives and other family planning services

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Clinical audit is the systematic and critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources and the resulting outcome and quality of life for the patient

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There are an estimated 140 000 heterosexual serodiscordant couples in the United States

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1 in 5 Americans are currently taking psychiatric drugs—47 million adults and 10 million children

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The number of new AIDS infections a year declined from 2.4 million to 1.8 million over the decade from 2001 to 2011

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Between 2005 and 2011, the number of people dying from AIDS related causes went down from 1.8 million to 1.2 million a year

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In Uganda, the number of new infections (an estimated 120,000 in 2009) exceeds the number of annual AIDS deaths (64,000 in 2009), and it is feared HIV prevalence in this country may be rising again

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In South Africa, Aids-related deaths decreased from 257,000 in 2005 to 194,000 in 2010 (Actuarial Society of South Africa)

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It is estimated that about 37,000 individuals in Ecuador are affected by HIV/AIDS with approximately 2,000 new infections every year

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An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control

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Every 30 seconds, a young person becomes HIV-positive

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More than 200 million women in developing countries want – but lack access to – effective contraception

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Every day, 800 women die from causes related to childbirth and pregnancy, with 99% of deaths occurring in developing countries

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HIV infection is significantly associated with an increase in anal cancer risk, and anal cancer is the fourth most common cancer found in HIV-infected people

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The estimated prevalence of HIV is about 40% among the world's roughly 16 million injection drug users

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The cost of first generation HIV treatment dropped from over $10,000 per patient per year in 2000 to $350 by 2001

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More than 80% of ARVs used by donor funded HIV treatment programmes globally between 2003 and 2008 were sourced from generic manufacturers in India

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Just one-third of children 6 to 24 months old in low-income countries meet the minimum criteria for dietary diversity

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Child under nutrition is a major public health challenge, estimated to be responsible for 2.2 million annual deaths

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Special attention is needed to ensure that the contraceptive needs of vulnerable groups such as unmarried young women, poor women and rural women are met and that inequities in knowledge and access are reduced.

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Serving all women in developing countries who currently have an unmet need for modern methods would prevent an additional 54 million unintended pregnancies, including 21 million unplanned births, 26 million abortions (of which 16 million would be unsafe) and seven million miscarriages; this would also prevent 79,000 maternal deaths and 1.1 million infant deaths.

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Current contraceptive use will prevent 218 million unintended pregnancies in developing countries in 2012, and, in turn, will avert 55 million unplanned births, 138 million abortions (of which 40 million are unsafe), 25 million miscarriages and 118,000 maternal deaths.

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Contraceptive care in 2012 will cost $4.0 billion in the developing world. To fully meet the existing need for modern contraceptive methods of all women in the developing world would cost $8.1 billion per year.

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The number of women who have an unmet need for modern contraception in 2012 is 222 million. This number declined slightly between 2008 and 2012 in the developing world overall, but increased in some sub-regions, as well as in the 69 poorest countries.

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The proportion of married women using modern contraceptives in the developing world as a whole barely changed between 2008 (56%) and 2012 (57%). Larger-than-average increases were seen in Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia, but there was no increase in Western Africa and Middle Africa.

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In 2012, an estimated 645 million women in the developing world were using modern methods – 42 million more than in 2008. About half of this increase was due to population growth.

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Being overweight or obese increases the risks of coronary heart disease, ischaemic… and some common cancers

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Worldwide, 2.8 million people die each year as a result of overweight or obese

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In Africa more than one third of people are estimated to have high blood pressure

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Raised blood pressure is a high-risk condition that causes approximately 51% of deaths from stroke and 45% from coronary heart disease

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In just ten years, measles deaths have been cut by 74% to less than 114 000 child death worldwide

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In the year 2000, more than 477 000 children died from measles

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In 2000, an estimated 9.6 million children aged less than 5 years died worldwide. By 2010, annual child deaths had been reduced to 7.6 million

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Eastern Asia, which experienced the greatest MMR decline, has a contraceptive prevalence rate of 84% as opposed to only 22% in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with one of the lowest MMR declines

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Without HIV, the MMR for sub-Saharan Africa would be 450 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births instead of 500

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Of the estimated 19 000 maternal deaths attributed to HIV worldwide, 17 000 (89%) are in sub-Saharan Africa

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Chad and Somalia have the highest adult lifetime risk of maternal mortality at 1 in 15 and 1 in 16

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Two countries account for one third of global maternal deaths: India at 19% (56 000) of all global maternal deaths, followed by Nigeria at 14% (40 000)

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Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest MMR at 500 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births, while Eastern Asia had the lowest among MDG developing regions at 37 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births

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The MMR in developing regions (240) was 15 times higher than in developed regions (16)

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Developing countries account for 99% (284 000) of the global maternal deaths

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Globally, maternal mortality has fallen by 47% between 1990 and 2010 (543 000 in 1990 to 287 000 in 2010)

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Child marriage also results in increased risk for sexual coercion and domestic violence

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MMR is considered to be high if it is =300 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births and extremely high if it is =1000 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births

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Girls who marry young often drop out of school, which further perpetuates the cycle of poverty and brings about grave consequences for them and their families. Women are more likely to invest their income into the household and their family and children

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Child brides face increased risk of contracting HIV because they often marry an older man with more sexual experience and are often unable to negotiate safe sex

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About 75% of Senegal’s population lives in rural areas

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Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account for 75% of all maternal deaths and under-five child deaths

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There were an estimated 382,000 abortions in Ethiopia in 2008, and about three-fourths of these procedures were carried out under unsafe conditions

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All MDG regions experienced a decline in MMR between 1990 and 2010

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Pregnancy and childbirth-related complications are the leading cause of death for girls ages 15–19 in developing countries. At such a young age, a girl has not developed fully and her body may be strained during childbirth, which can result in maternal death or pregnancy-related complications such as obstructed labor and obstetric fistula

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An estimated 43.8 million abortions occurred in 2008 as compared to 41.6 million in 2003

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Family planning reduces the risk of unintended pregnancy and hence unsafe abortions

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If contraceptives were accessible and used consistently and correctly to avoid pregnancy, an estimated 25-35% decline in maternal mortality would result

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67,000 abortion-related deaths annually, representing 13% of all pregnancy related maternal deaths

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Of the approximately 35 million induced abortions that occur annually, 20 million are unsafe

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Of the approximately 210 million pregnancies that occur annually, nearly 80 million are unintended

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Seven percent of all abortion patients had been exposed to intimate partner violence

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More than half of women who obtained abortions in 2008 (57%) had experienced at least one disruptive life event during the 12 months preceding the abortion

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Zambia has the world's sixth highest rate of HIV, with 14.3 percent of the population infected with the virus

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HIV is the leading cause of death for women of reproductive age worldwide

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Globally, women 15–24 years old are most vulnerable to HIV infection, with infection rates twice as high as among men of the same age, and accounting for 22% of all people acquiring HIV infection

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Only one female condom is available for every 36 women in sub-Saharan Africa

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More than one third of women aged 20–24 years in low- and middle-income countries marry before they are 18 years old

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Approximately 40% of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, increasing risk of women’s ill health and maternal death

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Globally, less than 30% of young women have comprehensive and correct knowledge on HIV

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Women living with HIV are not regularly involved in formal processes to plan and review the national HIV response to HIV in 32 of 94 countries

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In many countries, customary practices on property and inheritance rights further increase women’s vulnerability to HIV and reduce their ability to cope with the disease and its impact

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Two-thirds of the world’s 796 million illiterate adults are women

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Women living with HIV are more likely to experience violations of their sexual and reproductive rights, for example forced sterilization

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Between 11% and 45% of adolescent girls report that their first sexual experience was forced

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The survival rate for cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa is 20%, compared to 80% in the U.S.

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Each year, 270,000 women die needlessly from a disease that is 100% preventable

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In London, one in seven gay men has HIV

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One in 88 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, a 78 percent increase from 2002 to 2008

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More than 60 million women give birth each year without antenatal, delivery and newborn care

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Worldwide AIDS-related deaths fell to 1.7 million last year from some 1.8 million in 2010. AIDS deaths peaked at 2.3 million in 2005

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Representing a mere 1 in 500 people living in the U.S., Black gay men account for nearly 1 in 4 new HIV infections

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Chances of achieving an undetectable viral load are equally poor for patients who inject heroin, cocaine, or a combination of these two drugs

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HIV infection rates among black Americans, which is seven times that of whites

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Globally, an estimated 16 million people inject illegal drugs, of whom about three million - nearly one in five - are living with HIV

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Almost one in every five deaths worldwide occurs as a result of infection

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Poor hygiene speeds up the spread of antibiotic resistance

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India has an estimated 220000 children infected by HIV/AIDS

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Every day 800 women die from pregnancy-related causes

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Globally, an estimated 287 000 women died during pregnancy in 2010, a decline of 47% from 1990

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In 2009 approximately 16.6 million children aged 0 to 17 years have lost one or both of their parents due to HIV

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HIV treatment reduces incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions and promotes their regression

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If all women had access to #FP who wanted it, unintended pregnancies would decline by 53 million/yr

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Condom use reduces the risk of infection by 95% while Truvada at best is 44% effective and that adherence to the one pill every day treatment regime in healthy people would be difficult

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In Africa, 59% of all people living with HIV are women

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In Sub Saharan Africa the lifetime risk of dying in childbirth is 1 in 39. In developed countries it is 1 in 3800

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2.1 million children die before reaching the age of 5 year- four every minute-mostly from preventable illness such as diarrhea, typhoid, malaria, measles and pneumonia

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Approximately 50,000 people become newly infected with HIV every year in the United State

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India is home to almost 19 percent of the world's children

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About 415,000 Americans are at high risk for contracting HIV

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Every time 100,000 babies are born, 210 women die during pregnancy, down from 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 1990

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India is among 79 countries criminalize same-sex relations between consenting adults, with six carrying a death penalty

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If an HIV-positive person adheres to antiretroviral therapy (ART) used to treat AIDS, the risk of transmitting the virus to their uninfected sexual partner is reduced by 96%

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Burkina Faso’s population is the third youngest in the world behind Niger and Uganda, with 46% of the population below the age of 15

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71 million adolescents worldwide are not in secondary school, and as many as 127 million young people aged 15 to 24 are illiterate, with most of these clustered in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

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In Niger, half of young women aged 20 to 24 gave birth before the age of 18

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Some 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 give birth each year, accounting for around 11 per cent of all births

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In Africa, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the chief killers for girls aged 15 to 19

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1.4 million adolescents die from injuries related to traffic accidents, childbirth complications, suicide, AIDS, gang-related violence and other causes

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In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescents make up the biggest slice of the population, with 23 per cent of those aged 10 and 19

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India is home to the highest number of adolescents, at 243 million, followed by China, with around 200 million adolescents

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Adolescents make up 18 per cent of the world's population, and more than half live in Asia

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Stopping therapy also increased the risk of HIV transmission

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Nigeria requires an additional minimum number of about minimum 240,000 doctors to attain desirable health standards

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Nigeria has only about 25 percent of the doctors it needs for a population of over 150 million people, about 45 percent of nurses and midwives, and about 12 percent of pharmacists

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High fertility is a driver of poor health outcomes for mothers and children

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Supply constraints, including affordability and access, are barriers to contraceptive use

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Francophone Africa has the worst health outcomes in the world

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Limited use of contraception is driven by low awareness and social barriers

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Francophone Africa accounts for one third of SSA population and has the highest fertility rate in the world

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High fertility is a critical driver of rapid population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing region of the world and is expected to grow 2.7 times by 2050

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A once-a-day pill to help prevent HIV infection could significantly reduce the spread of AIDS, but only makes economic sense if used in select, high-risk groups

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140 babies in every 1,000 will die before the age of 1, and more than a third will never learn to read

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The lack of access to quality sexual and reproductive health services and supplies, in particular family planning services, is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality

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Contraceptive use in Francophone Africa is the lowest in the world

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Routine criminalization and incarceration of people who use drugs fuels HIV transmission and undermines efforts to get treatment and care services to HIV positive drug users

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Every year, 370,000 children – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa – are born with HIV

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95% of pregnant women in Kenya did not disclose a positive HIV diagnosis to spouses and relatives for fear of stigma, discrimination and violence

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Among 450 urban areas with one million or more inhabitants in 2011 (representing 1.4 billion people), 60%, or about 890 million people, are located in regions exposed to at least one major type of natural disaster risk

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By 2011, 359 million people lived in these megacities – the equivalent to 9.9 per cent of the urban population of the world

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The projected increase in urban populations in India and Nigeria in the next 40 years will be higher than that of the past four decades

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Africa and Asia together will account for 86 per cent of all growth in the world’s urban population over the next four decades

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Over the next four decades Africa’s urban population will increase from 414 million to over 1.2 billion by 2050 while that of Asia will soar from 1.9 billion to 3.3 billion

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Cities are where the pressures of migration, globalization, economic development, social inequality, environmental pollution and climate change are most directly felt

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61% of new HIV infections in the U.S. are among gay and bisexual men, although this population accounts for only 2 percent of the country’s population

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Mozambique has the 14th highest burden of TB in the world, with an estimated 130,000 cases

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Only 6.65 million people (out of 34 million) are receiving antiretroviral therapies, representing just 19% of the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide

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19% of those living with HIV/AIDS in the US are engaged and retained in medical care in a way that leads to an undetectable viral load

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1996: Brazil becomes first developing country to guarantee free ARV access to all HIV/AIDS patients

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1993: Serum Institute of India receives WHO prequalification for its measles vaccine; India is first developing country to receive WHO prequalification

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There are an estimated 200,000 commercial sex workers in Kenya, 15,000 of whom are men

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40% of female and male commercial sex workers in Kenya are in marriages or stable unions

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Sixty-two percent of TB patients in Mozambique are HIV-positive

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The level of unmet family planning need among the 1.18 billion women aged 15–49 worldwide is estimated to be 11%

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Women who sell sex in Uganda came sixth among the 20 African countries after Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya and Benin

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About 23,000 people, or 2 percent of the global HIV-TB burden, are in Zambia

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Zimbabwe had an estimated 71,961 new TB cases in 2007 and 87,000 deaths per year, with an estimated incidence rate of 539 cases per 100,000 populations

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Half of the children in the developing countries go without meals and they are malnourished which makes them more vulnerable to TB

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Globally, there are about nine million new TB cases annually and 1.4 million people lose their lives to active TB each year

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Between 2006 and 2007, 400,000 women had been raped in the Congo

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En 2017, l'Afrique générerait plus de déchets électroniques que l'Europe

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Two out of every five female sex workers (FSWs) in India could be suffering from HIV infection

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HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe has declined remarkably in recent years, dropping from 26 percent to 14 percent between 1997 and 2009

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En Ouganda  le coût d’une nouvelle infection s’élevait en 2010 à environ 12 fois le PIB par habitant (5 900 dollars)

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In India, women account for around one million out of 2.5 million estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS

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Au Botswana, où environ un quart de la population des 15-49 ans est séropositive, les coûts budgétaires de la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA pourraient culminer à 3,5 % du PIB vers 2016

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The region where the risk of HIV infection increased most for a sex worker was Asia (29 times more) compared to a 12-time higher threat in Africa and Latin America

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Les financements mondiaux pour la lutte contre le SIDA sont passés de 260 millions de dollars en 1996 à 15,9 milliards de dollars en 2009

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Women constitute one-quarter of new HIV infections in the United States with 66 percent of infections occurring among black women, though black women constitute only 14 percent of the US female population

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Pneumonia can be treated with antibiotics, but around 30% of children with pneumonia receive the antibiotics they need

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Pneumonia can be prevented by immunization, adequate nutrition and by addressing environmental factors

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Pneumonia can be caused by viruses, bacteria or fungi

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Pneumonia kills an estimated 1.4 million children under the age of five years every year – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined

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Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide

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Between 1990 and 2008, maternal mortality worldwide dropped by one third

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Skilled care before, during and after childbirth can save the lives of women and newborn babies

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Adolescents face a higher risk of complications and death as a result of pregnancy than older women

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Maternal mortality is higher in rural areas and among poorer and less educated communities

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99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries

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Every day, approximately 1000 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth

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Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old, and is responsible for killing 1.5 million children every year

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Giving anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-negative people can reduce their risk of acquiring the virus from an HIV-positive partner

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Worldwide, more than 60 million women between 20 and 24 years were married before they turned 18

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More than 40% of the world's child marriages still occur in India

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A child born in a slum in urban India is as likely to die before the first birthday, to become underweight or anemic or to be married off before the 18th birthday as a child in rural India

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India (46) also figures among the 50 worst nations with the highest under-five mortality rate

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In India 33% of children less than five years in urban India and 46% in rural India are underweight

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In India 57% of male adolescents (aged 15-19) and 53% of female adolescents thought a husband was justified in beating up their wives under certain circumstances

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22% women in India now aged between 20 and 24 years gave birth to a child before they turned 18

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The Global Fund has disbursed $15 billion to programs in 150 countries

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Malaria deaths actually decreased, from 1.8 million in 2004 to 1.2 million in 2010

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10% of the population in Ethiopia – around seven million – is living with some kind of disability

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An estimated 910,000 lives have been saved globally through the scale-up of collaborative TB/HIV activities

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The number of people living with HIV without active TB receiving isoniazid-preventive therapy increased from 26,000 in 2005 to 180,000 in 2010

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TB screening among people living with HIV has increased 12-fold from 200,000 in 2005 to 2.3 million in 2010

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More than 60% of the total number of TB patients estimated to have HIV were diagnosed and registered in HIV care in 2010, compared with less than 15% in 2005

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More than 100 countries fully adopted the Interim Policy measured by HIV testing of at least half of TB patients identified

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Zimbabwe reduced annual deaths from 123,000 in 2006 to 71,299 in 2010

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36 percent of infants living with HIV have a median life expectancy of 16 years

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In 2009, an estimated 370,000 children were born with HIV

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In 2009, 2.5 million children under 15 years were living with HIV around the world, with the vast majority—2.3 million—in sub-Saharan Africa

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Women co-infected with HIV are up to five times as likely to see cervical papilloma lesions progress to cancer

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Over the past decade, 230 million cases of malaria have been treated and the same number of bed nets have been distributed to people at risk (of malaria)

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A girl aged 1-5 is 75% more likely to die than a boy in India, marking the world’s most extreme gender disparity concerning child mortality

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Among children under five years of age in the developing world, nearly one-quarter are underweight (127 million) and one-third are stunted (195 million)

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1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010

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Plus de 90% des médicaments pédiatriques contre le sida sont fabriqués par des firmes indiennes

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In South Africa, experts say over 17,000 people die every single day from Aids

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India is home to the second largest population of people living with HIV (2.39 million HIV infections of which 39 percent are female and 4.4 percent are children)

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An estimated 215 million women in the developing world have an unmet need for modern contraception

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About 53 percent of pregnant women living with HIV in the developing world receive antiretroviral drugs to prevent transmission to their infants

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Every six minutes a woman dies in South Africa at the hands of a man she has been intimate with – whether a husband, the father of her child or a lover

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En 2050 la population de l’Asie atteindra 5,3 milliards d’habitants

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Les avortements effectués dans des conditions dangereuses comptent pour 12 pour cent de tous les décès maternels en Afrique de l’ouest, ce qui équivaut à environ 9700 décès maternels par an

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48% de la population mondiale vit avec moins de 2 dollars par jour

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South Africa's 500,000 mine workers have the highest TB incidence in the world, est. at 3-7,000 cases/100,000 population

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2,5 c’est l’indice synthétique de fécondité dans le monde

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Over 90% of pediatric AIDS medicines are supplied by Indian generics

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En 2009 le Luxembourg affichait le revenu par tête d’habitant le plus élevé (US$ 59,590)

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60% of TB suspects in South Africa are HIV+

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Les jeunes représentent 40 % de la population africaine en âge de travailler, mais 60 % des chômeurs

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In 2010 less than 2% of HIV prevention funding across 44 low and middle-income countries was dedicated to MSM

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72% des jeunes africains vivent avec moins de deux dollars par jour

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85% of AIDS patients are deprived of treatment in Democratic Republic of Congo

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200 millions d’africains sont âgés de 15 à 24 ans, représentant 20 pour cent de la population du continent

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Women make up for 40 percent of the global labor force

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10 millions de jeunes s’ajoutent à la population sur le continent africain chaque année

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The number of malaria cases treated with effective anti-malaria drugs jumped by more than a third, to 230 million in 2011 from 170 million in 2010

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70 million bed nets were distributed in 2011, an increase of 43% over 2010

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The number of tuberculosis cases detected and treated rose to 8.6 million in 2011 from 7.7 million in 2010, an increase of 12%

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The number of HIV testing and counselling sessions rose 27% to 190 million in 2011, compared to 150 million in 2010

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The number of mothers treated to prevent them from transmitting HIV to their babies rose to 1.3 million in 2011, from 1.0 million in 2010, up 30%

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The number of people who received antiretroviral treatment (ART) in 2011 was 3.3 million, an increase of 10% compared to the 3.0 million people who received ART in 2010

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Every year, approximately 1.5 million children die from diarrheal disease

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Pneumonia kills more children under 5 years of age annually than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined

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Post-partum bleeding is responsible for 25 percent of maternal deaths every year

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More than 50% of people living in the developing world receive health products and services through the private sector

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Increasing access to voluntary use of long-acting reversible contraception methods, such as an intrauterine device or contraceptive implants, reduces the risk of women dying from unintended pregnancies

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Every year, 70 million unintended pregnancies occur throughout the world, contributing to the 340,000 women who die from pregnancy-related causes

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The global incidence of malaria dropped 17 percent since 2000 and by more than 50 percent in several endemic countries

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Accroître l'investissement dans la planification familiale dans les pays ouest africains francophones ne permettra pas seulement d’éviter 7400 décès maternels et 500 000 décès de nourrissons dans les 10 prochaines années, mais également de réduire considérablement le nombre d'avortements

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Fewer than one in ten MSM are reached by HIV prevention programs worldwide

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In Bangladesh prevalence among PWID in the capital city has gradually risen from 1.4% in 2000 to 7.0% in 2007

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For every 5 percent reduction in U.S. funding of global health programs, 182,000 people with HIV/AIDS and 2.1 million malaria patients will be left untreated; and millions of children will go without immunization against resurgent diseases like measles that can leave children with pneumonia, blindness, or death

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Seventy per cent of the world’s poorest people are women

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With only 11% of the world population, Africa is still home to 67% of the HIV infected persons, that is 22.5 million in total

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One in five new HIV infections in Uganda is from mother to child

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Only 10% of the 300 million children in India between the age of 6 and 16 will pass school and go beyond

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More than half of Nepal’s population lives below the poverty line, living on less than USD 1.25 a day

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46 percent of pregnancies in Uganda are unplanned

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In Africa as a whole there are 4,200,000 abortions annually with a total of 14 abortions per 100 live births and 24 abortions for every 1000 women aged 15-44

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En Afrique de l’Ouest francophone, environ trois femmes meurent de causes maternelles chaque heure, et un enfant de moins de cinq ans meurt toutes les minutes

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Just 56 percent of Uganda's available health positions are filled

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Le quintile le plus riche des femmes est neuf fois plus susceptible d'utiliser la planification familiale que le quintile le plus pauvre des femmes (18% vs 2%)

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3.42 billion people living in urban areas in 2009

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3.41 billion people living in rural areas in 2009

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1.7 average number of births by women in industrialized countries

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7.1 average number of births by women in Niger

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5 average number of children per woman worldwide in 1950. It’s now 2.6

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47 average life expectancy worldwide in 1950. It’s now 68

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227,000 people added to the world every day

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140 million people born every year

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57 million people die worldwide every year

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In Africa, some 39% of the 2·3 million people diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2010 were carriers of HIV

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In 2009, 9·7 million children are thought to have been orphaned by parental deaths caused by tuberculosis (whether or not accompanied by HIV)

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In Kenya 3,200 cases of gender-based violence were reported to the police countrywide in 2010, up from 2,800 in 2009

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In Uganda 827,000 women become pregnant every year without intending to have a child at that time

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Plus de la moitié des 67500 décès qui surviennent chaque année, suite à un avortement à risque, se produisent en Afrique

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People living with HIV who are on antiretroviral treatment, are much less infectious and therefore much less likely to transmit HIV to others

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About 40% of children under five years of age in Nepal are underweight, and 40% of children under 16 are engaged in child labor

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of acute hepatitis and chronic liver disease. Globally, 3 to 4 million persons are newly infected each year

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Plus d’un Béninois sur deux a moins de 15 ans et près de deux Béninois sur trois ont moins de 25 ans

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Every year, Uganda adds one million more people to its population. That's about 4,000 births a day, or it's like adding the entire population of Swaziland to Uganda every year

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School dropout rate in India touches 56.8%

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Use of hormonal contraceptives increases both the risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV—with the highest risk seen in those using injectable contraceptives

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For every 100,000 live births in Indonesia, 228 women lose their lives

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Worldwide approximately 41 % of the 208 million pregnancies each year are unintended

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80% of the Indian workforce does not possess identifiable marketable skills

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5 femmes meurent tous les jours au Sénégal des suites d’une grossesse ou d’un accouchement

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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are home to one third of all people living with HIV in the world

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India had an estimated 2.4 million people with HIV in 2009

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Women and girls make up almost 60% of the people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and 50% globally

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One out of three children ages 5 to 14 must work. Even for those in young adulthood, one-quarter is illiterate

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One out of three Africans is between 10 and 24 years old, a high proportion living in urban settings

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Everyday 2,500 young people are newly infected with HIV – many of them are young women

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Denying women’s sexual and reproductive health rights undermines the fight against AIDS

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More than one-third of young African women are married and one out of four is a mother by age 18

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Non-communicable diseases kill 36 million people a year

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8.8 million children die every year from treatable and preventable conditions

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530,000 women at least die from pregnancy related complications every year

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900,000 killed by malaria each year with 300 million new infections occurring

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215 million couples in the developing world are unable to plan their childbearing when they want

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