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They heard from health experts who said that communicable diseases were rampant and that mosquito nets would be a great way to combat malaria.
Nine out of ten deaths from communicable diseases in the developing world are avoidable.
In low-income countries, nine million people, mostly children, die each year from infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea, and AIDS.
This is unacceptable, especially given the availability of treatments for these diseases.
As world leaders gather in Johannesburg to discuss global environmental threats, many parts of the planet are battered by floods, droughts, harvest failures, massive forest fires, and even new diseases.
Land use changes, say, can amplify the spread of infectious diseases by changing the mix of species or the ways that animals and humans interact.
I remember working at a pediatric ward as a teenager and watching children die from diseases like polio, measles, and tetanus – all easily prevented by vaccines.
Building these routine immunization systems has already helped us to eradicate diseases like polio and all but one type of measles.
When it comes to disease, they have at times been willing to invest to slow or stop epidemics like AIDS, malaria, and Ebola, both to save lives and to prevent the diseases from coming to their own countries.
Studies like one by the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health show that with an $11 trillion dollar annual national income, America could finance the control of AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and many other killer diseases for a small fraction of the money it wastes in Iraq.
For starters, governments should emphasize young people’s sexual health by offering a comprehensive instruction in reproductive health issues, including topics related to contraceptive methods, how to communicate in relationships, and where to access information and support related to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
This makes it the best investment the world could make, reaping social benefits that outweigh the costs by 40 to 1.Similarly, providing micronutrients missing from more than half the world’s diet would reduce diseases caused by deficiencies of iron, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin A with an exceptionally high ratio of benefits to cost.
Their problems are more basic: not dying from easily preventable diseases; not being malnourished from lack of simple micronutrients; not being prevented from exploiting opportunities in the global economy by lack of free trade.
This includes our risk of developing a host of age-related diseases.
Local healthcare clinics started bundling testing and treatment for the two diseases; and, as anti-viral medications have become available in Africa, the rate of TB infections in HIV patients has begun to fall.
Early bidirectional screening programs in India, China, and other heavily affected countries offer hope that the two diseases can be better managed.
If you are extremely poor, you can’t afford to avoid even the easily curable diseases that cause every sixth human death.
Richard Cooper of Harvard University once observed that in the early days of international public health cooperation, the fight against global diseases was hampered by countries’ adherence to different models of contagion.
The rich countries should help the poor countries to overcome the burdens of their geography by helping to fund a major fight against as AIDS, malaria, and other tropical infectious diseases.
But there is a third, arguably more pernicious, risk lurking below most decision-makers’ radar: infectious diseases.
Against this background, scientists are concerned about the recent uptick in epidemics of diseases such as Zika, Ebola, and avian flu.
And they are alarmed by the resurgence of life-threatening diseases such as influenza, HIV, malaria, and TB.
But the risks from infectious diseases that we face today could intensify substantially, owing to the rise of anti-microbial resistance (AMR).
Yet they do tend to wait for crises to erupt before they invest in fighting infectious diseases.
In this sense, the fight against infectious diseases closely resembles the fight against climate change.
Lobby groups, activists, and the media promote certain causes – solar panels, the Zika virus, closing tax loopholes immediately – while less fashionable issues, like nutrition or non-communicable diseases, can slip beneath the radar.
They die from diseases like measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate health care to those that can.
Combating KonzoEAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Too many preventable diseases, from AIDS to yellow fever, have long afflicted Sub-Saharan Africa.
The work of Michael Skinner and his colleagues provides a good example of this: they found that injecting pregnant rats with a chemical that suppresses androgens (male sex hormones) causes their descendants to have diseases that are inherited for several generations.
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