Extreme poverty: an obligation ignored

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Extreme poverty is defined as a level of income or expenditure below which people cannot afford a minimum, nutritionally adequate diet and essential non-food requirements.2 The effects of poverty on health are never more clearly expressed than in poor communities of the developing world. The absence of safe water, environmental sanitation, adequate diet, secure housing, basic education, income generating opportunities, and access to health care act in obvious and direct ways to produce ill health, particularly from infectious disease, malnutrition, and reproductive hazards.3

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