WORLD HEALTH ISSUES

WORLD HEALTH ISSUES

WORLD

We have more microbes on our hands than the whole world’s population.

At least 28 million Africans have aids. It is believed that 90% have not contacted aids from sexual activity but rather by poor health standards. For example in Zimbabwe between 1984 and 88 the HIV rate increased by 12%, sexually transmitted diseases dropped by 25%. While in Kenya 2 people die from aids everyday and it is believed that 9% of its population has HIV. (ABC 11/11/03)

Estimation has it that 600 South Africans die daily from aids.  With millions of Papuan, Indonesian, Chinese and Indian people becoming victims. HIV is predicted to kill 10,000 Cambodians alone in the next decade.  Sadly, in Asia one third of the adult population may be HIV infected. (8/03 & 22/10/03)

Women now account for half of the 42 million people worldwide who are HIV positive. (4/11/03)

There are 21 million documented refugees worldwide. (Austcare 03)

Colon cancer kills 56,000 Americans every year.

North American indigenous people have 678% more chance of becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol.

An estimated 1.7million US woman used HRT for menopausal symptoms. Recently, 340,000 have stopped due to side effects; with 110,000 of those were not high-risk candidates for the side effects. (Ch 9 News 17-2-04)

There are about 6.2 million legal drug addicts in the USA approximately 1/12^th of population. There are about 495 Internet sites where legal drugs can be bought illegally.

Death connected to obesity is up in the US by 30%, smoking deaths up 10%, with 60% of the US population overweight.

About 9 million Americans have had cosmetic surgery in the year 2003.

THE 1ST NATION PEOPLES PROTESTING INDIGENOUS POVERTY. VANCOUVER (03).

Over 50% of US adults are overweight, some of which has been linked to depression. (6/03)

Something like about 90% of people with HIV does not know how they were infected.

In the US about 1,470 people die each day from Cancer, with a further 3,655 cases being diagnosed.

Americans take a sick day every 3 weeks. Furthermore, 1.2 million Americans take diet pills continually.

The US Justice found BAT and affiliated Brown & Williamson Tobacco guilty of 50 years of deceit to encourage consumers to start and continue smoking. It said that due to this conspiracy the US government was forced to spend US$20 billion a year on tobacco-related illnesses. (9/10/03)

In the late 1600’s germ warfare was used against North American Indians by spraying blankets and then distributed them to the indigenous population.

Early indigenous people knew to vaccinate themselves against such things as smallpox and other diseases by making the sputum into powder and inhaling it through the nasal passages. The colonists started to notice this practise when they deliberately infected blankets etc with these diseases and copied it in the late 1700’s. The early Hindi people used the dried pus to vaccinate its population by pricking and scratching the powder into the skin.

Smallpox is a present day scourge still!

During the 1530’s in Mexico and Central America, the Spanish Conquistadors slaughtered more than 9 million of the 11 million Aztec populations in 5 years. Most were slaughtered while praying in large groups.

Four percent of the American population is environmental intolerant to EVERYTHING, related to extreme unnatural chemical absorption of 371 to 500 chemicals found just in our food and the air we breath.

Surgeons leave up to 9,000 medical instruments and tools inside patients in the Western world each year.

About 1,470 people die and 3,655 are diagnosed with cancer ever week in the USA.