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"Behind this incredible obsession with abstractions and statistics there are these individual human predicaments,and it's as if the world and its negotiations just can't focus on the human reality."
Stephen Lewis,UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
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800,000 Children who die annually from measles, which causes 10% of deaths worldwide among children under five years old.
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"TB is a giant poverty-producing mechanism."
Jacob Kumaresan, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
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ONE IN THREE
Fraction of the world's population currently infected with tuberculosis.
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"Countries must learn from the SARS experience: Fess up as soon as you find a case,as quickly as possible."
Alexander Downe, Australian Foreign Minister, on the deadly outbreak of avian flu in southeast Asia, TIME Magazine, 2 February 2004
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ONE BILLION
Estimate of people who will be infected by tuberculosis between 2000 and 2020.
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"DDT killed bald eagles because of its persistence in the environment. Silent Spring is now killing African children because of its persistence in the public mind."
Tina Rosenberg, on the re-emerging interest in using DDT to fight Malaria, in "What the World Needs Now is DDT," New York Times Magazine, 11 April 2004
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10%
Percentage of girls in Tajikistan who have ever heard of HIV or AIDS.
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"The real crisis with HIV/AIDS is that it became engulfed in a most pernicious and insane syndrome of denial."
Home Affairs Minister Mangosutho Buthelezi, speaking on the South African government's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Boston Globe, 9 March 2004
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12 MILLION
Children under the age of five who die annually of infectious diseases associated with poverty.
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"There is no difference between Ronald McDonald and Joe Camel."
Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology, Yale University
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38.6%
Percentage of the population of Swaziland with HIV. Swaziland recently overtook Botswana as the country with the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world.
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"Road traffic crashes of all types are an enormous, largely overlooked world health problem, second only to childhood infections and AIDS as the killers of people between the ages of five and thirty."
David Brown, reporting on the WHO's World Health Day theme, "Road Safety," Washington Post, 7 April 2004
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