Bill Gates: My Vision for the Next Decade

"As I address the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva today, I¹m excited
about the progress that has been made. In 2005, the first time I gave a
speech to the WHA, Melinda and I were still new to global health. My
message then was one of optimism. The world was finally starting to use
its greatest resource‹innovation‹to solve its biggest problem‹the fact
that billions of people don¹t have the chance to lead a healthy,
productive life.

When I reflect on what I have learned in the past six years, I am more
optimistic than ever. I believe we have the opportunity to make a new
future in which global health is the cornerstone of global prosperity.

When everyone has access to good health care, the world will be
transformed. Freeing billions of people from the relentless burden of
sickness and death will unleash more human potential than any other
revolution in history."

Read speech to the 64th World Health Assembly:
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Many Countries Experience a Dual Challenge: Both Infectious and Chronic Diseases

An increasing number of countries are facing a double burden of disease as
the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes,
heart diseases and cancers increase and many countries still struggle to
reduce maternal and child deaths caused by infectious diseases, for the
Millennium Development Goals, according to the World Health Statistics
2011 released by the WHO today.

Noncommunicable diseases such heart diseases, stroke, diabetes and cancer,
now make up two-thirds of all deaths globally, due to the population aging
and the spread of risk factors associated with globalization and
urbanization. The control of risk factors such as tobacco use, sedentary
lifestyle, unhealthy diet and excessive use of alcohol becomes more
critical. The latest WHO figures showed that about 4 out of 10 men and 1
in 11 women are using tobacco and about 1 in 8 adults is obese.

In addition many developing countries continue to battle health issues
such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria that are most likely to kill
children under the age of five. In 2009, 40% of all child deaths were
among newborns (aged 28 days or less).

Read further::
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/many-countries-hit-by-health-threats-fro
m-both-infectious-and-chronic-diseases

World Population Over 9 Billion By 2050

The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach
10.1 billion in the next ninety years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle
of this century, according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of
World Population Prospects.²

Statistics Source: Next Big Future
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/05/un-projects-world-population-of-62-to.html
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