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Spending $3.9 billion on family planning and maternal health initiatives, such as provision of emergency contraception in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, could avert 1.4 million infant deaths and 142,000 pregnancy-related deaths in women.
Making reproductive services available to women who cannot afford to pay their way can help prevent these deaths.
In the case of Crimea, the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators in Kyiv and the possible Russian takeover of eastern Ukraine has called into question principles such as non-intervention.
In fact, in all but the poorest and most poorly run countries, deaths resulting from weather-related disasters are on the decline.
This has helped us to maintain adequate stocks, broaden access to essential medicines, and, we hope, reduce the number of malaria deaths in developing countries’ rural areas.
In the US, there were more suicides than road deaths last year, and there are three times more suicides than road deaths in Germany and the UK.
The United Nations Population Fund, for example, estimates that increased use of contraceptives in developing countries would reduce annual maternal deaths by 70,000, and infant deaths by 500,000.
According to the WHO, about one-third of HIV/AIDS deaths in 2014 were attributable to TB.
This relatively small investment would deliver extraordinary benefits, not least by preventing 140 neural-tube-defect deaths and more than 250,000 cases of anemia every year.
But the vicious civil war that followed – and has still not entirely concluded – caused the violent deaths of up to 200,000 people.
Africans suffer about 500 million cases of malaria per year, causing around 2 million deaths.
Whereas the 2003 SARS epidemic resulted in 774 deaths, and the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015 left 11,310 dead, the 1918-1920 flu epidemic claimed the lives of 100 million people – more than five times the number killed in the world war that had just ended.
In fact, last year’s 580,000 cancer deaths exceed the roughly 430,000 battle deaths, on average, in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War.
At the top of their list of priorities was treatment of tuberculosis, which kills about 80,000 Bangladeshis annually – one in every 11 deaths in the country.
If left unchecked, the number of cervical cancer deaths is set to rise to 430,000 annually by 2030.
The good news is that powerful tools are available to avert many of these deaths.
At a cost of $23.5 million per year, this intervention would cut maternal deaths by 65% and save more than 5,000 children, with every dollar spend producing $18 in social benefits.
Spending around $5 million over ten years to fortify 95% of wheat flour would prevent annually 140 deaths from neural tube defects and more than 250,000 cases of anemia.
Every minute that passes means one less mother, and it is shameful that 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries.
Clinton, meanwhile, shamefully abandoned Somalia after the deaths of American soldiers in Mogadishu – and did nothing in the face of Rwanda’s genocide.
On the contrary, migrants started to explore alternative and mostly dangerous routes with a frequent rate of deaths at sea.”
The continuing rise in migrant deaths in transit poses a conundrum: as these migrants are pushed toward trafficking and smuggling networks, they are dragged further into the grey areas of the international community’s response.
In the last year alone, there have been 15 such lynchings across nine Indian states, resulting in 27 deaths.
The result is a mounting toll of predictable deaths.
We know how to treat TB, just like we know how to reduce child deaths and rein in malnutrition.
Across two full pages inside, the paper presented a graph of seasonal deaths over the past decade, and indicated with alarming red spots how summer heat waves have killed dozens of Swedes.
Because more people almost everywhere on the planet die each year from cold temperatures than from warm temperatures, the overall impact of global warming will be fewer deaths from temperature extremes.
The resulting household air pollution contributes to 600,000 deaths annually – half of them children under the age of five.
For one-fiftieth of that cost, we could provide essential micronutrients to 2-3 billion people, thereby preventing perhaps a million deaths and making half the world’s population mentally and physically much stronger.
Continuing resistance to calls to restructure anti-drug strategies and goals will only worsen the HIV epidemic and contribute to the deaths of millions of vulnerable people.
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