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Gaps and constraints
The child mortality rate in 1999 was 156 per 1,000
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 25 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS
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Gaps and constraints
Despite undoubted health advances in many areas, poor health continues to be a constraint on development efforts
More than 200 million people live today in countries with an average life expectancy of less than 45 years
Due to infectious diseases related to the environment, in some of the poorest countries of the world, children do not reach their fifth birthday
Six major diseases currently cause 90 per cent of the deaths from communicable diseases: AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases, and measles.
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Gaps and constraints
Many deaths could be prevented by the use of low-cost antibiotics and improved access to primary health care.
Today, more than 1 billion people are without access to improved water suppl
Deficiencies of iodine, vitamin-A, iron and folic acid remain important and preventable contributors to morbidity and mortality.
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Gaps and constraits
Hundred million of people continue to be infected annually with malaria, almost 300 million clinical cases worldwide each year, and over 1 million deaths.
Regardless of the progress in tuberculosis control in the 90s, about 8 million people develop active tuberculosis every year, and it kills over 1.5 million people per year.
Inequalities in access to information and to health services, Insufficient sex educationr, and the low social status of women, are factors that do not allow the evolution of progress
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