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Meanwhile, global efforts to slow climate change, promote trade, set new rules for the digital age, and prevent or contain outbreaks of infectious diseases are inadequate.
Health: Asia’s experience in dealing with SARS, bird flu, H1N1, and other diseases should be studied carefully – for both positive and negative lessons – with a view to developing a new global consensus on handling pandemics.
Drug resistance threatens the effective treatment of a growing list of communicable diseases – from bacterial infections to viral to and fungal diseases.
Computers are learning to diagnose diseases.
The MDG’s also address the scourges of maternal death in childbirth, lack of access to safe drinking water, and killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
People with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, the elderly, and the very young were particularly affected.
This means that a broad variety of diseases are not being treated effectively, in the developed or the developing worlds.
Understanding the proteins’ roles then led to greater knowledge of the underlying causes of diseases.
Today, issues such as infectious diseases, environmental degradation, electronic crimes, weapons of mass destruction, and the impact of new technologies are of importance.
Moreover, gastrointestinal diseases contracted from dirty water kill 2.2 million people annually.
Rates of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are increasing almost exponentially, and lack of access to quality care will add to many countries’ governance challenges.
Brazil also needs budgetary space to accommodate needed investment in social infrastructure, especially sanitation and basic health-care facilities, in order to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases.
Lifelong effects can include delayed cognitive development, lower productivity, and increased vulnerability to certain diseases.
Its people are dying from starvation, from preventable and curable diseases (at much higher rates than the Latin American average), and from violence – including, in some cases, gunshot wounds inflicted by their own government.
That is why we have so-called “orphan drugs,” from which not enough money can be made because they cure rare diseases or diseases (like malaria) that affect people who cannot afford to pay for them.
Yet this has been inadequate to stem the spread of disease; in fact, with many of the new and emerging infectious diseases affecting humans originating in animals, veterinarians, microbiologists, and epidemiologists have been trying to understand the “ecology of disease” (how nature, and humanity’s impact on it, spreads disease).
Adopting a balanced, largely plant-based diet, with minimal consumption of red and processed meat, would help conserve natural resources, contribute to the fight against human-induced global warming, and reduce people’s risk of diet-related chronic diseases and even cancer mortality.
So biodiversity can act as a natural “insurance policy” against sudden environmental changes and a buffer against losses caused by them (as well as by pests and diseases).
Their politicians cite budget constraints and the need to prioritize domestic programs over fighting diseases that disproportionately kill the world’s poorest.
Integration of services for infectious diseases and primary care has contributed to some of the steepest declines in child and maternal mortality ever observed.
And, as life expectancy in Rwanda continues to climb (from below 30 in 1995 to 55 in 2010), we are now taking action against non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
Unfortunately, infectious diseases are far from under control around the world.
Infectious diseases neither respect national borders nor conveniently follow economies into recession.
They are frequently infested with mice, rats, and other animals that can bring in diseases.
Nor can one discount scenarios in which artificial genes disable beneficial natural genes, or even cause outbreaks of new diseases.
It was Britain’s rising agricultural productivity in the 18th century, for example, which helped to raise nutrition levels and reduce the burden of infectious diseases, that helped to initiate the Industrial Revolution.
Millions of poor people every year die of infectious diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and measles.
Even in many middle-income and higher-income countries, there have been surges of new and re-emerging infectious diseases, as a result of increased global travel, the opening of new regions to settlement, and the overuse of antibiotics with a resulting spread of disease-resistant parasites.
I soon learned that, as bacteria and parasites develop resistance to existing drugs, like antibiotics and antimalarial medications, the world is at risk of losing its battle against infectious diseases.
We also must develop tools to identify and halt outbreaks of resistant diseases at an early stage.
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