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Australians’ out-of-pocket healthcare expenses are the fifth highest in the world and amount to twice the sum paid by those in the United Kingdom and France. Almost two decades ago, the Australian government established Medicare, a publicly funded universal health care system, to provide Australians with equitable and affordable medical care, […]

Women make up 48% of Pakistan’s total population. The female literacy rate stands at 36% and on average a Pakistani woman is married off at the age of 19. Currently, 62% of Pakistani women (of child bearing age from 15-49) are married, while 3% are widowed or separated and 35% […]

Every year, the lack of employment opportunities in Central American countries pushes thousands of individuals to embark on a journey through Mexico all the way to the United States in order to integrate into Latin communities gathered in American cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and […]

   The state of Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the United States – 26 percent of a population of 26 million. Of the uninsured, 58 percent are Latino, including 1.3 million children under the age of 18. Under the Affordable Care Act, the Medicaid program would […]

In 2000, all United Nations Member States, aiming at combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals. The established framework had a clear deadline: 2015. Yet despite important progress in several countries, there is still a great deal to be done. […]