Every day, 80 million children don’t go to school, and most of them are girls, 8000 people die of HIV and AIDS, many because they can’t afford the drugs they need.
Yet millions of the world’s poorest people suffer and die each day because they don’t have access to safe water, sanitation, health care and education. Millions of people in the developing world are denied their right to schools and health care. This situation is increasing poverty and causing suffering on an unimaginable scale.
Classrooms with teachers, clinics with nurses, and affordable medicines. For millions of people, these things are still a distant dream. How can we make this dream a reality? Running taps, working toilets, classrooms with teachers and clinics with nurses, these public services save lives and help people escape poverty. They are basic human rights .
Oxfam launches a global call for “Health and Education For All”. calling for investment for six million more teachers, nurses and doctors around the world. Oxfam is urging developing country governments to allocate an increased proportion of their annual budgets into providing these essential services, and demanding that rich countries support poorer nations with an increased and long-term aid commitment targeting the health and education sectors.
According to Oxfam’s Global “For All” campaign briefing, universal education and health is possible in even the poorest countries, if the investments are made. The brief reveals how Uganda and Brazil have doubled the number of children in school, halved AIDS deaths and extended safe drinking water and sanitation to millions of people. In Sri Lanka, where even though one-third of the population lives below the poverty line, public clinics with free medical treatment and qualified nurses are within walking distance.
To learn more about "Health and Education for All" please visit: www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/health_and_education.
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