Health care for urban poor falls through the gap

While governments and donors focus on health care for those living in rural poverty in developing countries, the residents of the world's slums are being neglected, writes Priya Shetty.

 The world is becoming more urbanised overall (? gure). 2008 was a demographic turning point—for the ?rst time, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), more people lived in
urban areas than in rural ones. Yet these new urbanites, especially in developing
countries, are overwhelming cities that were never designed to have so many
inhabitants, and therefore simply do not have the infrastructure to cope.