India
Despite strong economic growth over the past decade, significant disparities in India still remain, based on class, caste, gender and geography. The new United Progressive Alliance coalition government, which came into power in May 2004, has pledged to emphasize social development as part of its National Common Minimum Programme. It seeks to eliminate some of the inequalities in Indian society by reducing poverty, increasing public spending on education, speeding the delivery of health services and improving nutrition and food security.
Currently, tuberculosis kills more people in India than any other country (the sub-continent has an estimated 40% of the world’s cases, killing approximately one person every minute).
| Facts About the Country |
What your donation could buy in India |
Region: South-Central Asia
Capital: New Delhi
Population:
1151.7 million
Surface area: 3,288,000 square km
Currency: Rupee
Development Index: 128
Life Expectancy: 64
Infant Mortality: 57/1000
% of population below $1 a day: 35 (1994 -2004)
Adult Literacy: 61% |
£30 would buy a bicycle for an outreach worker
£50 would pay the cost of a village awareness raising day
£300 would pay for TB medicines needed for children (not provided by the government) for one hospital for a year
£600 would buy lab equipment including a microscope
£800 would pay for food needed to supplement the diets of 100 poor patients
£5,000 would buy a new X-ray machine
£8,500 would buy a jeep for a TB service. |
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