Statistics show us that amazing progress is happening - whether it's the declining number of global child deaths, the advances made against HIV/AIDS, or the increase in African children going to school.
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Fact: An estimated 600,000 new HIV infections in children have been averted.
The use of antiretroviral treatment for HIV-positive pregnant women has averted an estimated 600,000 new HIV infections since 1995, the vast majority since 2005.
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Fact: Due to vaccination programmes between 2000 and 2010, measles deaths worldwide fell by 74%.
In sub-Saharan Africa, measles deaths dropped by 85% during the same period.
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Fact: We are close to wiping out guinea worm
This disease has been eliminated in all but four countries, and cases have been reduced from almost 624,000 cases in 1990 to fewer than 1,100 cases in 2011. 97% of remaining cases are located in South Sudan
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Fact: 87% of people in the world today have enough food to eat and lead healthy lives – up from just 76% in 1970
Due to a combination of smart policies and aid, increased trade, and investments in agriculture.
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Fact: We are nearing the eradication of polio
Since 1988, roughly 2.5 billion children worldwide have been vaccinated against polio. In the same period, the global number of polio cases has been reduced by more than 99%
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Fact: 50.8 million more children started going to school in sub-Saharan Africa between 1999 and 2010.
As a result of African leadership on education, backed by increased aid and debt cancellation.
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Fact: TB deaths are declining globally
Down from 1.8 million deaths in 2003 to 1.4 million deaths in 2010.
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Fact: Malaria deaths fell by 33% in the African region between 2000 and 2010.
Half of sub-Saharan African households now own an anti-malaria net, up from just 3% in 2000.
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Fact: By the end of 2011, 5.5 million child deaths were averted.
Thanks to immunisations supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.
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Fact: 6.2 million sub-Saharan Africans were on life preserving antiretroviral treatment for AIDS in 2011, up from just 50,000 in 2002.
Meaning HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence in the world's poorest countries.
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Fact: An estimated 600,000 new HIV infections in children have been averted.
The use of antiretroviral treatment for HIV-positive pregnant women has averted an estimated 600,000 new HIV infections since 1995, the vast majority since 2005.
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Fact: TB deaths are declining globally
Down from 1.8 million deaths in 2003 to 1.4 million deaths in 2010.
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Fact: Malaria deaths fell by 33% in the African region between 2000 and 2010.
Half of sub-Saharan African households now own an anti-malaria net, up from just 3% in 2000.
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Fact: 6.2 million sub-Saharan Africans were on life preserving antiretroviral treatment for AIDS in 2011, up from just 50,000 in 2002.
Meaning HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence in the world's poorest countries.
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Fact: Due to vaccination programmes between 2000 and 2010, measles deaths worldwide fell by 74%.
In sub-Saharan Africa, measles deaths dropped by 85% during the same period.
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Fact: We are close to wiping out guinea worm
This disease has been eliminated in all but four countries, and cases have been reduced from almost 624,000 cases in 1990 to fewer than 1,100 cases in 2011. 97% of remaining cases are located in South Sudan
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Fact: We are nearing the eradication of polio
Since 1988, roughly 2.5 billion children worldwide have been vaccinated against polio. In the same period, the global number of polio cases has been reduced by more than 99%
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Fact: By the end of 2011, 5.5 million child deaths were averted.
Thanks to immunisations supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.
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Fact: 87% of people in the world today have enough food to eat and lead healthy lives – up from just 76% in 1970
Due to a combination of smart policies and aid, increased trade, and investments in agriculture.
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Fact: 50.8 million more children started going to school in sub-Saharan Africa between 1999 and 2010.
As a result of African leadership on education, backed by increased aid and debt cancellation.
