IMPORTANT FACTS ON POVERTY!

!. Every week, AIDS claims as many lives as American fatalities in the Vietnam War. Since it was discovered, AIDS has killed nearly 30 million people equal to the combined population of Arizona and Texas, and nearly 10 times the number of earthquake fatalities in the last century.

2. 6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS every day. If all of these children held hands they would stretch five and half times across the United States. By 2011, this virtual chain will reach around the world.

3. What Makes AIDS so different from killer epidemics of the past?

Unlike the black Plague of flu epidemics that largely spared the healthy, working-age population, AIDS is decimating the ranks of teachers, parents, doctors, and farmers the very people a society relies upon to provide for basic needs. As a result, children and the elderly are left to fend for themselves.

4. Food shortages are a big problem. By 2020, AIDS will have claimed the lives of at least one-fifth of southern Africa's agricultural workers. Food production is just one area in which AIDS threatens to reverse decades of development work in poor communities.

5. a. Sex with a virgin cures aids?
b. If you feel healthy you cannot be Hiv positive?
c. Aids is caused by evil spirits?

All of these are popular myths in developing countries. Limited formal education, lack of access to reliable information, and inadequate health care all promote harmful myths about AIDS.

6. Of the approximately 3.4 billion adults living in the developing world, how many are illiterate?

The answer is 870 million or 25% are illiterate. For women in the
illiterate?developing world, the illiteracy rate is even higher 33%

7. How many of the world's 6 billion people live on less than $1 a day?

1.2 Billion
According to the latest available statistics, 1.2 billion people or 20% of the world's population live on less than $1 a day. In sub-Saharan Africa there are 302 million people living on less than a dollar a day. The figure in Latin America is
60.7 million.

8. What percentage of the United States gross domestic product (GDP) did the U.S. government dedicate to foreign aid in 2001

.11%
In 2001, the United States government allocated 0.11% of the total U.S. gross domestic product to foreign aid. In comparison, Denmark allocated 1.01% of its GDP. Relative to the size of its economy, this is 10 times what the United States gives.

9. The richest 20% of the world's population holds 86% of the world's wealth (measured in gross domestic product or GDP). What share of the
Less than 1%

Twenty percent of the world's population 1.2 billion people controls less than 1% of the world's wealth.


10. The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, with a gross national product (GNP) per capita of $29,000. What is the GNP per capita in the poorest country, Sierra Leone?

$140
According to the latest estimates, Sierra Leone's GNP per capita is $140. In two countries where ACCION works Bolivia and Honduras GNP per capita is $740 and $1,010, respectively.

11. Janurary 17, 2007
The emergence of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) — a form of TB that can be incurable — has set off alarms throughout the global health community. Called “Ebola on steroids” by some, XDR-TB is a particularly deadly threat to people with HIV/AIDS and is swelling to emergency proportions in Southern Africa. Unless steps are taken now to strengthen TB control efforts in Africa and throughout the world, these deadly strains will continue to spread and multiply — undermining much of the recent progress in AIDS treatment scale-up and TB control, and posing a risk to the U.S. and members of our armed forces serving overseas.

12. “Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum.” muhammad yunas nobel peace prize 2006