250 million people in Latin America are suffering from a non-communicabkle disease, such as cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease.
In 2002, there were over 288,000 deaths from cervical cancer worldwide. Approzimately 80% of these deaths occured in developing countries.
Global life expectancy at birth in 2015 was 60 years in the WHO African Region and 76.8 years in the WHO European Region, giving a ratio of 1.3 between the two regions.
There are approximately 50 million orphaned children in Africa, most of them HIV-positive.
274 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean do not have health insurance.
88% of diarrheal deaths worldwide are the result of unsafe water, and inadequate sanitation and hygiene.
More than 10 million people in Africa live on less than $1 per day, the so-called food poverty line below which people are unable to purchase enough food for an adequate diet.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 11 percent of the world’s population, yet bears 24 percent of the global disease burden and commands less than one percent of global health expenditure.
