United Nations ranks Burma among the 20 poorest in the world following decades of mismanagement under successive military Junta. In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked Burma's overall health care system as the world's second worst, above war-ravaged Sierra Leone.
About 105 per 1,000 children die before age 5 in Burma, compared with 19 per 1,000 in nearby Vietnam and 7 per 1,000 in the United States, according to UNICEF. At least 360 of every 100,000 women die in childbirth, compared with 130 in Vietnam and 17 in the U.S.
U.N. World Food Program's regional director, visited our motherland this month and estimated at least 5 million people were going hungry.
The Junta spend only about 3 percent on health annually, compared with 40 percent on the military, according to a report published this year by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
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