Challenges of poverty ‘must be faced’

THE figures are all shameful — and the reality behind each one is the unnecessary and avoidable death of millions of innocent people.

As the UN launched its Human Development Report in Dublin yesterday, renowned development economist Jeffery Sachs was at pains to drive the point home.

More than 15,000 Africans die daily from the lack of simple medicine, he told the crowd of development workers and journalists at Government Buildings.