Health & Family - Human Rights Facts

Worldwide, women suffer greater malnutrition than men.
600,000 women -- one every minute -- die each year from pregnancy-related causes. Most of these deaths are preventable.
As children, girls are often undervalued, fed less, and given inadequate healthcare.
Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7999 were female.
In the Global South, women traditionally eat last and least. They do not get more to eat even during pregnancy and nursing.
Nearly half of all people living with HIV/AIDS are women and girls.
510,000 children under the age of 15 died of HIV/AIDS in 1998. Today, almost 1.2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV/AIDS.
In some countries, the HIV/AIDS infection rates for 15- to 19-year old girls are 3 to 6 times higher than for boys.
Every day 7000 young persons are infected with HIV/AIDS.