Tag Archives: population

It has been 25 years sinces the AIDS epidemic was declared. The UN projects that by the year 2025 31 million people in India and 18 million in China will die from complications associated with AIDS.

A man who suffers with AIDS, Eric Sawyer, has an article published on Common Dreams, What 25 years of AIDS Has Taught Me, where he addresses the lack of a global funding commitment on the U.S.’s part to combat the disease and the lack of information being desseminated to the public.

Sawyer attended last week’s United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS and reports what was……or more significantly, what was not…..accomplished.

According to Utah Policy‘s Lavaar Web in his “Monday Buzz”. Lavaar’s piece, “Population Bomb is a Bust”, highlights parts of readings on population around the world, the decline of population in Europe and how Utah’s high birth rate will one day be an advantage:

One day Utah’s high birth rate will be seen as a significant competitive advantage. We’ll have a workforce when others are lacking.

While the U.S. increases the size of its population with force, the dollars spent on services to support its population is severely lacking, something that many European countries have an advantage over the U.S.

See my post on the numbers of people who die each year as a result of not being able to afford healthcare.