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World poverty
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Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations
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Half the world, nearly 3 billion people live on less that $2 a day
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1 billion children live in poverty, 1 in 2 in the world.
Has major impact on health
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Unformatted text preview: World health o More than 90 percent of the deaths from infectious diseases worldwide are caused by only a handful of diseases Lower respiratory infections, hiv, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, malria and measles...
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- Spring '08
- Milton
- Infectious Disease, world poverty, lower respiratory infections
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