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Environmental Pollution and Women and Children's Health: A Few Statistics


  • Water pollution in Uzbekistan has led to an increase in birth defects and complications in pregnancy.
  • Pesticide exposures in central Sudan are linked to 22% of hospital stillbirths.
  • Air pollution in the Ukraine has been linked to 21% of all illnesses affecting women and children.
  • One in three women in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during her life.
  • Nuclear contamination in Chelyabinsk, Russia has led to a 21% increase in cancer and a 25% increase in birth defects. Half the women of childbearing age in this country are sterile.
  • In Guatemala, pesticide residues in breast milk are reported to be 250 times the amounts allowed in cow's milk.
  • Most children in China take in Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT) from breast milk at levels 10 times higher than internationally accepted maximums.

Source

Global Development Resource Centre, Special Focus on Gender and the Environment [December 2007]

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Placed on the Communication Initiative site January 07 2008
Last Updated January 07 2008

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