With all the scientific and technological progress around the world, how come poor sanitation still remains a mass child killer? And how can we save lives by learning a few lessons from the past - for example, from the 19th century Britain?
Join Dima and Jackie as they listen to and discuss an interview with the spokesman of a leading environmental charity.
This week's question:
Health problems caused by poor sanitation are killing many more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined. If the world spent 10.8 billion dollars in 2004-2006 on HIV/Aids, how much do you think was spent in the same period on improving sanitation?
Listen to the programme
Fighting poor sanitation
a) $1.5bn
b) $15bn
c) $50bn
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Vocabulary from the programme
- sanitation
- systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
- diarrhoea
- when your body gets poisoned by unclean water or infected food, making your stomach upset so you need to go to the toilet really often; this can be a very serious health problem
- to outweigh
- to be greater or more important than something else
- health care priorities
- deciding which diseases or illnesses to fight first
- lack of political will
- here, governments show no desire to act
- is driving this neglect
- is the reason for not doing anything about the situation
- shocking
- extremely bad, very unpleasant
- investment
- putting money into something worthwhile
- to bring about
- to result in something, to be the impulse for something to happen
- significant reductions in child mortality
- the number of child deaths became a lot smaller
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