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Planet Art eXchange
The Womb Project PAX'08 - The launchThe Womb Themes PAX Organisation Getting Involved Sponsoring Info Press Coverage
London, addressing the health divide |
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London, UK Reasons Global burden of disease: Low- to middle-income countries account for 85% of the world’s population and 92% of the global burden of disease. They lack proper health systems and infrastructure, biotechnological development, and financial resources to benefit from and contribute to the advances in health and medical research. Health research: According to the Global Forum for Health Research, 90% of all health research expenditure is targeted at problems that affect only 10% of the world’s population. Drug development: In many low-income countries, communicable diseases make up the greatest component of the total disease burden, and the management of communicable diseases signifies an important challenge for health systems. Yet, between 1975 and 1999, the pharmaceutical market produced only 15 (1%) new drugs for tropical diseases and tuberculosis, illnesses which account for 12% of the global burden of disease. The area of cardiovascular diseases, which account for 11% of the global burden of disease, received 179 (13%) new drugs in the past 25 years. London Coordinator Call for participation We Call for Established and up-and-coming visual and performing artists, poets, writers and scholars from around the world to join the relevant collaborative project of PAX12 |
PAX'12 Coordinator Desmond O'leary Sumer Erek
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