The Crisis is Real.
Fact: The average person in sub-Sahara Africa subsists on an annual income of $271, or a mere 74 cents a day. (Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap, Sachs 2004)
Fact: Less than 5% of HIV-infected individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa have
access to
antiretroviral drugs, 2003 (Investing in Development: A practical guide
to Achieve The Millennium Development Goals, Sachs 2005)
Fact: Less than one doctor for every 2,000 people in Sub-Sahara Africa (Investing in Development: A practical guide to Achieve The Millennium Development Goals, Sachs 2005)
Fact: Primary School Education
rates of Sub-Sahara Africa: 58%
Secondary School rates of Sub Sahara Africa: 21% (Unicef’s 2006
State of the World's Children report)
Fact: Over 1 million children die of Malaria in Sub-Sahara Africa each year. (Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap, Sachs 2004)
Fact: In developing countries, one child in 12 dies before its fifth birthday,
compared with 1 in 152 in high-income countries
(The World Bank)
Fact: a total of 4 million
African children under five die each year. Remarkably, five conditions
account for approximately 95 percent of these fatalities: one quarter
result from neonatal disorders (infections, birth asphyxia and injuries,
and complications of prematurity) that occur in the first twenty-eight
days of life; 22 percent from malaria; 21 percent from pneumonia; 20
percent from diarrheal diseases; and 8 percent from HIV/AIDS.48 (SACHS
2004)
- Extreme poverty can be defined
as “poverty that kills,” depriving
individuals of the means to stay alive in the face of hunger, disease,
and environmental hazards.” (Investing in Development: A practical
guide to Achieve The Millennium Development Goals, Sachs 2005)
- Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges
in meeting the Millennium Development Goals on almost every dimension
of poverty, with many countries falling behind. Between 1990 and 2001
the number of people living on less than $1 a day rose from 227 million
to 313 million (Investing in Development: A practical guide to Achieve
The Millennium Development Goals, Sachs 2005)
- A lack of education is thus a sentence to a lifetime of poverty. (Investing in Development: A practical guide to Achieve The Millennium Development Goals, Sachs 2005)
And help is on the way.
Net proceeds will benefit the humanitarian and research work of the following beneficiaries:
Emory Vaccine Center
www.vaccines.emory.edu
International Peace Initiatives
(IPI)
www.ipeacei.org
Heifer International
www.heifer.org
Partners In Health (PIH)
www.pih.org
Circles of Ten: Women
for World Peace
www.peacecircles.net
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