Poverty Statistics: Health

• Diarrhea kills 2.5 million, caused mainly from unsafe water.
• Malaria kills 3,000 children every day in sub-Saharan Africa and 1-3 million children worldwide. 350 to 500 million cases of malaria occur annually worldwide. Bed nets to prevent malaria cost $5, covers 2 children and lasts up to 5 years. Malaria treatments cost $1. 2011: Intensive control efforts have cut deaths from malaria by 20 per cent.
• Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria.
• Less than 2% of children in Africa have a bed net to prevent malaria.
• Tuberculosis infects 9 million more people annually of whom 2 million will die. TB treatment costs 41 cents a day. Each person with infectious TB infects 10-15 others per year. 2011: The incidence of tuberculosis is falling, bringing the MDG target within sight. Tuberculosis prevalence and mortality are also declining. Up to 6 million lives have been saved since 1995, thanks to an effective international strategy for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.
• Polio: 300,000 new cases each year and 98% are in India, Pakistan and Nigeria. Polio vaccines cost 50 cents.
• DPT3 immunizations: 2.2 million children die each year from not being immunized, of those, half a million die each year from measles. Vaccines cost $1.
• 90,000 women die annually from unsanitary delivery practices. Women in the third world have a 1 in 13 chance of dying in childbirth (versus 1 in 14,000 in the west), only a 40% chance of having a skilled medical professional attending the birth and 2 million newborns die within the first 24 hours in the Third World.
• HIV/AIDS: 8,000 people die each day from AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of people with AIDS/HIV. 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa has 10% of the world's population and 70% of the world's HIV/AIDS, 80% of the AIDS deaths and 90% of the AIDS orphans. Some countries 20% of their population has HIV/AIDS.
• Globally, in 2009, about 16.6 million children were estimated to have lost one or both parents to AIDS, up from 14.6 million in 2005; 14.8 million of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
• AIDS orphans: 34 million and increasing, 94% live in sub-Saharan Africa.
• 65 million are estimated to have died from AIDS by 2020.
• Every minute, every day a child under 15 dies from AIDS.
• 380,000 children died from AIDS in 2005 and 540,000 more were infected.
• Most children are infected with HIV during pregnancy, delivery and breast feeding. Fewer than 10% of children receive treatment.