Hans Rosling
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326 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2010
last heard Apr 2015
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And that determination you can see.
And I think the country can in a certain way gain strange strength of having gone through this process and see that they did it.
Because when you're on ground, you see that it's mainly the population and the professionals here in the country that won the battle in the first place.
We know from estimates that there were more people who died from the lack of health service in malaria and conditions related to childbirth than that died from Ebola.
But that was inevitable during the crisis.
We only know one thing, we are going to win.
We are talking about months.
We have to finish it before a year.
So I told my grandkids I won't be home for Christmas.
We can no longer have two boxes in our head, one labelled Western world, the other labelled developing world.
And the very fact that UNICEF, this wonderful United Nations organization, which I like so much, stupidly still labels South Korea developing countries.
and unforgivingly label Singapore a developing country.
Singapore has the lowest child mortality in the world, and they are still a developing country.
And Qatar, which is the richest country, which has given us Al Jazeera, they are also developing.
This has to go.
This has to leave.
And we have to realize that countries are on a line from, in one end, Singapore and Norway, and in the other end, Congo and Afghanistan.
And in that distance between Singapore and Norway being the most affluent and healthiest countries in the world and Congo and Afghanistan being the poorest and most deceased, most people live in the middle.
That's where Brazil is.
That's where Turkey is.
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