It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.
Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
Rich people are afraid to die.
Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.