Friday, October 5, 2007

Health facts


* In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.

* The average woman in New Zealand doesn’t give birth until she is nearly 30 years old.

* Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

* 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

* In Ethiopia, nine out of ten births occur without skilled health staff present.

* The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

* Only 4% of married women in Chad are using contraceptives.

* More than half of all doctors in Finland are female.

* One in three Italian babies is born by caesarean section.

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