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| [00:07.34]Last Tuesday was World Population Day. [00:12.98]The message this year was Saving Women's Livers. [00:18.91]The director of the United Nations Population Fund, [00:24.27]Nafis Sadik,released a statement in ovservance of the day. [00:30.59]Doctor Sadik said that the lives of women around the world are full of risk. [00:38.14]She said more than 500,000 women die each year as a result of pregnancy. [00:46.47]She said many more pregnant women become sick [00:51.49]or injured because of their condition. [00:55.43]Doctor sadik said pregnancy is even most dangerous for young women. [01:03.09]She said girls between the ages of ten and fourteen [01:08.44]are five times more likely to die from the condition than women ten years older [01:16.28]The UN agency director also discussed women and their increased [01:23.72]risk of getting the virus that causes AIDS. [01:28.69]Doctor Sadik said there are 2,000,000 more African women [01:35.01]with the HIV infection than African men. [01:39.87]She said women also are at higher risk for getting other diseases [01:47.08]spread through sexual activity. [01:50.81]The UN official urged all people to take action to save women's lives. [01:58.86]She said people must support equal rights for women. [02:04.21]Doctor Sadik said women should receive the same eduction [02:09.96]and health care as men. [02:13.02]The UN official said many women do not have the freedom [02:18.95]to make decisions to control their lives. [02:23.28]60% of the poor people in the world are female. [02:28.72]Doctor Sadik said 65% of the people who can not read or write are women. [02:37.15]And she said 350,000,000 women can not get reproductive health care. [02:44.88]In some places,even knowledge about reproductive health is limited. [02:52.23]Michael Vlassoff is the representative for the UN Population Fund in India [03:00.77]He says people there know about very few methods to prevent pregnancy. [03:07.82]He says most people in India only know about operations [03:13.96]that end a woman's ability to become pregnant. [03:19.60]Mister Vlassoff also says the UN is very concerned [03:25.53]about the difference in the number of females and males in India. [03:31.96]He says the most recent Indian government census showed that [03:38.20]there are 927 females for every 1,000 males. [03:45.02]The UN official says Indian culture values males more highly than females [03:53.06]He says this leads too often to the ending of pregnancies [03:58.92]in which the fetus is female. |
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