DID YOU KNOW
People in developing countries account for
89% of the world’s population, bear 93%
of the world’s disease burden, yet have
access to only 11% of the world’s health
dollars.
David Satcher/JAMA
(Dec. 2000)
But such disparities do not
occur only in developing nations.
In the United States, women of Vietnamese descent
suffer from cervical cancer at nearly five times
the rate of White women and the infant mortality
rate among African Americans is more than double
that of Whites.
HRSA (Nov. 2000)
