appalling statistic of the day

In Africa, 3% of the world’s health workers struggle to combat 24% of the global disease burden with less than 1% of the world’s health expenditures.

(World Health Organization. World Health Report 2006. World Health Organization 2006. Available at: http://www.who.int/whr/2006/chapter1/en/index.html. This is based on a threshold of at least 2.3 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 1,000 population.)