4. Relative Risk of Death from All Causes for Children in Jumla ARI Program
Source: Pandey, Daulaire et al, Lancet 1991

6. Women pay the highest price
205 million women become pregnant each year
28% of all pregnancies are unintended
43 million pregnancies are terminated by abortion, the majority in unsafe conditions
550,000 women die each year in pregnancy and childbirth

7. Where are mothers dying?

9. Decline in Maternal Mortality in Malaysia: Health Systems Improvements

16. Over 40 million living with infection, over 20 million already dead
Global HIV/AIDS
Over 40 million living with infection, over 20 million already dead
North America
1 million infected
Latin America
2 million infected
Sub-Saharan Africa
27 million infected
South and South-East Asia
6 million
infected
Source: UNAIDS

23. Source: National AIDS Programme, Kenya, 1999

25. Investment in health research 2001:
Acute respiratory infections in children: $58 million
Parkinson’s Disease: $77 million
Of the $56 billion invested in health research, less than 4% was devoted to the issues that predominate in the developing world.

26. Wrongs and Rights

27. “Public health and medicine are social interventions, and politics are public health in the most profound sense.”
Rudolf Virchow, 1848

28. Percent of National Income Used for Foreign Assistance
Source: OECD

29. What can you do? Service to those who need it most
Research on what matters
Advocacy to change the priorities of our governments
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32. …because when it comes to health there is no them only us.

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