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HealthHealth plays a paramount role in determining the livelihoods and development of communities. Despite acknowledgment in the United Nations Millennium poll that health is the most important thing that people value in life, it remains a topic largely shunned by political leaders. The condition of healthcare and the health of citizens is an issue which must not be ignored: as both a cause and consequence of poverty, an unhealthy community leads to an unhealthy nation. The prominence of AIDS, HIV and the deaths of children should be reason enough to alert us to make a difference. As more than five million children die of malnutrition each year, a child loses his or her mother in childbirth in a developing country each minute. Health plays a paramount role in determining the livelihoods and development of communities. Despite acknowledgment in the United Nations Millennium poll that health is the most important thing that people value in life, it remains a topic largely shunned by political leaders. The condition of healthcare and the health of citizens is an issue which must not be ignored: as both a cause and consequence of poverty, an unhealthy community leads to an unhealthy nation. The prominence of AIDS, HIV and the deaths of children should be reason enough to alert us to make a difference. As more than five million children die of malnutrition each year, a child loses his or her mother in childbirth in a developing country each minute. |
