How much do many sub-Saharan countries spend on drugs per person per year?

Inequality of health care is still paramount, says the WHO’s latest report. Industrialised countries account for less than 20 percent of the world’s population but take 90 percent of health spending. In Japan more than 500 dollars is spent on drugs per person per year. This compares to just three dollars in Sierra Leone. Only slightly more is spent in many sub-Saharan countries.

Six thousand delegates descended on the U.N.’s New York headquarters Monday for a high-level meeting to reaffirm commitments to women’s rights. The gathering--dubbed Beijing plus Ten--is devoted to assessing the progress made since the Fourth Conference on Women in the Chinese capital in 1995.