Apart from its economic costs
whoyg2396 | 09 November, 2009 03:05
21 October 2009 – Central America has become the region with the
highest levels of non-political crime worldwide, with an average murder
rate of 33 per 100,000 inhabitants last
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year, three times greater than the global average, a new United Nations
report warns, noting that crime threatens the region’s development.
Some
79,000 people have been murdered in the region over the past six years,
but despite these heightened levels of violence, solving the problem of
insecurity is possible within
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the framework of democracy, according to the UN Development Programme
(UNDP) Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010.
“Apart
from its economic costs, which are concrete and indisputable, one of
the main reasons why this is a crucial issue is that violence and crime
are affecting the day-to-day
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decisions of the population, making insecurity a clear hindrance to
human development,” UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the
Caribbean Rebeca Grynspan said.
The influenza pandemic
whoyg2396 | 09 November, 2009 03:05
“The influenza pandemic draws attention to the promise and dynamism of
vaccine development today,” Dr. Chan said on the report’s launch. “Yet
it reminds us once again of the obstacles to bringing the benefits of
science to people in the poorest nations. We must overcome the divide
that separates rich from poor – between those
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Ms.
Veneman noted that measles deaths worldwide fell by 74 per cent between
2000 and 2007, with vaccinations playing an important role. “Such
progress must inspire new efforts to immunize children around the globe
against life-threatening diseases,” she said.
The report
attributes the reversal of the downward trend in great part to
developing countries that made good use of the GAVI Alliance – a
vaccine-financing partnership that
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includes WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. Since 2000, this has increased the introduction of new and
underused vaccines, which now reach more than 200 million children in
developing countries.
It notes that the global vaccine market
has tripled over the last eight years, reaching more than $17 billion
in revenue, due to rising demand via UN procuring agencies and a
renaissance in vaccine discovery and development. Significantly,
manufacturers in developing countries are now meeting 86 per cent of
global demand for
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“We
have seen a dramatic turnaround in the availability of vaccines in even
the poorest countries,” Mr. Wheeler said. “Yet the international
community, together with the countries themselves, must ensure that new
and existing technologies actually reach the most vulnerable
populations, especially children.”
With the exception of safe
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With the exception of safe water, no other modality, not even
antibiotics, has had such a major effect on mortality reduction,” it
declares.
The gains made are impressive but major efforts are needed to ensure that they are protected during the
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current global economic crisis, and development of new vaccines that
could save millions of additional lives every year must not slow down,
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, World Bank Managing Director Graeme
Wheeler and UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman write in a joint
foreword.
“They need to be sustained and improved. New and
improved vaccines are urgently needed to prevent the unacceptable toll
of sickness and deaths from diseases such as
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malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Continued investments are essential to
ensure the breakthroughs needed in the research and development of
these next-generation vaccines,” they add.
“Experience shows
that economic crises can lead to government cuts in social sector
spending, a decline in international development assistance, an
increase in poverty, and an upsurge in deaths among children under five
years old. This must not be allowed to happen again.”
The release of new evidence of success in overall global immunization coincides with the pandemic
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influenza (H1N1) immunization campaigns by many countries, underscoring
the unparalleled role of vaccines in preventing communicable diseases
and the challenges of reaching the most vulnerable communities.
One of the most difficult
whoyg2396 | 09 November, 2009 03:05
One of the most difficult costs to quantify is that of lost freedoms,”
she added. “No aspect of human security is as basic as keeping the
population from being victimized by fear and physical violence.”
Security involves intelligent diagnosis, a real political will and an integrated system for adopting and
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“Security
is everyone’s right, and the State has the duty to provide it,” said
Hernando Gómez Buendía, the general coordinator of the report. “Without
security, there is no investment. Without investment, there is no
employment, and without employment, there is no human development.
Security is an essential part of the development strategy of nations
and cities.”
Security requires a very hands-on management of the problem, and an intelligent citizen security
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strategy for human development would not be complete without the
participation of local governments, according to the report. This
assumes direct knowledge of the problem, proximity, decentralization
and flexibility on the part of national and local authorities.
Both
the strong-arm and the soft touch approaches have failed and must
evolve toward a “smart” strategy of citizen security for human
development with a new comprehensive
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strategy that includes preventive and coercive actions, congruence with
the justice system and respect for the values of civility, it adds.
Real political will, clear leadership, and continuity from one
government to the next are crucial.
The report, The State
whoyg2396 | 09 November, 2009 02:59
21 October 2009 – Reversing a downward trend, childhood immunization
rates are now at their highest ever, but due to a funding gap of at
least $1 billion life-saving vaccines still do not reach some 24
million children – one in five born each year – who
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“The
stakes are high. WHO [UN World Health Organization] has estimated that
if all the vaccines now available against childhood diseases were
widely adopted, and if countries
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could raise vaccine coverage to a global average of 90 per cent by 2015
an additional two million deaths a year could be prevented among
children under five years old,” it says.
The report, The State
of the World’s Vaccines and Immunization, released jointly by WHO, the
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, notes that more infants
are being
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immunized today than ever before – a record 106 million in 2008 –
according to new data. But it calls on donor nations to address a
funding gap in the poorest nations and communities where preventable
diseases take their deadliest toll.
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