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And looking globally as well,
deaths
are also starting to fall.
Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and
deaths
from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and trade reform.
All together, they achieved these results: increased the number of people on anti-retrovirals, life-saving anti-AIDS drugs; nearly halved
deaths
from malaria; vaccinated so many that 5.4 million lives will be saved.
There's hundreds of billions of your aid dollars at stake, tens of millions of lives, or deaths, at stake, and, I'd argue, the security and future of you and your family is also at stake.
True, last year was a terrible year for terrorism in Western Europe, with 238 deaths, but 1988 was worse with 440
deaths.
When it comes to Spanish flu, those stories are common, of lightning speed
deaths.
Here is a graph that he put together showing the percentage of male
deaths
due to warfare in a number of foraging, or hunting and gathering societies.
The tiny, little blue bar in the lower left-hand corner plots the corresponding statistic from United States and Europe in the twentieth century, and includes all the
deaths
of both World Wars.
If the death rate in tribal warfare had prevailed during the 20th century, there would have been two billion
deaths
rather than 100 million.
He plotted on a logarithmic scale, going from 100
deaths
per 100,000 people per year, which was approximately the rate of homicide in the Middle Ages.
Worldwide, there's been a steep decline in
deaths
in interstate wars.
The yellow bars here show the number of
deaths
per war per year from 1950 to the present.
And, as you can see, the death rate goes down from 65,000
deaths
per conflict per year in the 1950s to less than 2,000
deaths
per conflict per year in this decade, as horrific as it is.
If it was the case, we wouldn't have between 200 and 300 million cases of malaria every year, and we wouldn't have a million and a half
deaths
from malaria, and we wouldn't have a disease that was relatively unknown 50 years ago now suddenly turned into the largest mosquito-borne virus threat that we have, and that's called dengue fever.
We are left with this missing space of increased
deaths
the further north you go.
Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer, but
deaths
from heart disease are a hundred times higher than
deaths
from skin cancer.
I saw
deaths
by thousands per day.
What happened is, you saw so many
deaths
that you are dying.
But it's really important to use the head as well to make sure that what you do is effective and well-directed, and not only that, but also I think reason helps us to understand that other people, wherever they are, are like us, that they can suffer as we can, that parents grieve for the
deaths
of their children, as we do, and that just as our lives and our well-being matter to us, it matters just as much to all of these people.
One of my favorite examples, the IRC, International Rescue Committee, they have a program where semi-literate midwives, using $10 mobile phones, send a text message using our software, once a week, with the number of births and the number of deaths, which gives IRC something that no one in global health has ever had: a near-real-time system of counting babies, of knowing how many kids are born, of knowing how many children there are in Sierra Leone, which is the country where this is happening, and knowing how many children die.
Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you.
That is over 20,000
deaths
a year.
We've got 300 million cases a year and over half a million
deaths.
But just if you take malaria out,
deaths
from everything else go down.
The battle against malaria is being won, with
deaths
from malaria down 27 percent, according to the latest World Bank data.
The World Health Organization puts the number of Chernobyl-related
deaths
at 4,000, eventually.
Now as you're reading, however, you will be maybe surprised that you will quickly become numb to the numbers of deaths, because you will see that these are sort of abstract numbers of faceless, nameless dead people.
The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance at the cost of the
deaths
of thousands of our young.
And the WHO has figures that suggest about 1.3 million
deaths
per year take place due to cross-contamination with needlestick injuries.
These are early
deaths
that take place.
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