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The World health Organization (WHO) hopes that the health of women is improved within the next few years, according to their report, Women and health: today’s evidence tomorrow’s agenda.
Up to 80% of all health care and 90% of care for HIV/AIDS-related illness is provided almost always by women, though health care for women in the world is not sufficient.
The Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, says that in so many societies, men exercise political, social and economic control, which gives unequal access to health care and an unequal control over health resources.
Still today, the main cause of death in women is AIDS, complications linked to pregnancy and tuberculosis, as well as heart attack and stroke.
Lack of access to education, decision-making positions and income may limit women’s ability to protect their own health. It is therefore believed that the world must adapt itself to better comply to the needs of women.