Poverty in the World ~ Social Issues

When we talk about poverty, what we want to say? According to the Cambridge Dictionary is "a lack of something or when the quality of something is extremely low". In our world, that word have been use for years, specially in the final century, when the globalization has been helping us showing what happen in the other part of the world. Poverty is one of the most important social issues in the actuality, mainly because it is in every part of the world, even in the "developed countries".

The poverty is mainly for the lack of food, water, money or any basic need. Which make it a big problem with many others related.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die every day of hunger in the world. But the most incredible thing is that there is plenty of food for everyone in the world. What make this problem so big is the lack of money to get a good and constantly source of food, what make them more sick and weak, This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier, creating a vicious circle.

Other problem coming with the poverty is the AIDS, that is behind the Black Death, the largest epidemic in history. AIDS kills over 1.5 million people a year, including children, who are often infected with the HIV since their pregnancy.

The Pneumonia also kills more than 1.5 million of children each year in poor countries. Pneumonia is contagious and is commonly transmitted when an infected person coughs or sneezes small droplets that contain the germ into the air. The big problem about pneumonia is that in small villages there are often no doctors or health centers.

This diseases along with others as tuberculosis, diarrhea, malaria and measles are the most biggest problems of the poor villages in differents parts of the world, where the hygiene and cleanliess are barely something common.