GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

GROOMING FUTURE WORLD LEADERS INC.

There are some health issues that are growing in almost all nations such as HIV/AIDS and STDs. GFWL Inc promotes avoidance and prevention education.

Center For Disease Control

http://www.cdc.gov/DiseasesConditions/

http://projects.psi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Statistics_nr&gclid=CMGdmtC70ZoCFRJexwodkQMTFg

Global

33.2 million people now live with HIV or AIDS.
In 2007, approximately 2.5 million people were infected with HIV.
Every day, over 6800 people become infected with HIV - almost five people per minute.
5700 people die from AIDS every day.
One child dies every minute.
15 million children around the world have been orphaned by AIDS, losing one or both parents to the disease.
Every fifteen seconds, another person age 15-24 becomes infected with HIV/AIDS.

Roughly one million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, 1.5 million Americans have been infected with HIV and more than 524,000 have died of AIDS.
At least 40,000 people are infected each year.
African Americans account for 48% of new HIV infections.

WHO (World Health Organization)

valuable link: http://www.who.int/whosis/en/

WHOSIS, the WHO Statistical Information System, is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 100 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables. The data can be further filtered, tabulated, charted and downloaded. The data are also published annually in the World Health Statistics Report released in May.

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