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Every day more than 30,000 children around the world die from preventable causes like dehydration, hunger and disease. Every year more than 500,000 women die in pregnancy and childbirth. Only ten percent of world spending on health and research development is directed at the health problems of ninety percent of the world’s people. By 2020, the hardest hit African countries could lose more than a quarter of their workforces to AIDS. Tuberculosis kills 2 million people each year. Malaria kills 1 million people each year. |