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But by allowing misinformed parents to forego vaccinations, Greece is exposing children to preventable infectious diseases and openly violating its pledge to ensure “that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health-care services.”
No medical or technical obstacles are blocking us from eradicating preventable infectious diseases such as measles and polio.
No country can achieve herd immunity – and eventually eradicate preventable infectious diseases – if it allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, as in Greece.
Ultimately, to defeat infectious diseases, we will have to restore faith in expertise, and rebuild trust with communities that have grown increasingly suspicious of authority in recent years.
Hypertension affects a staggering one billion people worldwide, and is responsible for nearly ten million deaths annually – as many as all infectious diseases combined.
And those who know they have high blood pressure may not know that it is linked to stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.
This makes it all the more difficult for health services in LMICs – which are often under-resourced, equipped solely for acute care, and overwhelmed by high maternal and child mortality and the persistent battle against infectious diseases – to address hypertension and other non-communicable diseases.
Less than 5% of global development aid was allocated to fighting non-communicable diseases in 2013.
The loss of economic output related to non-communicable diseases, including hypertension, is projected by the WHO to total roughly $7 trillion between 2011 and 2025.
We hope to hone our models so that they can be scaled up to provide countrywide coverage and address not just hypertension, but also other non-communicable diseases.
Only then can we successfully tackle the scourge of non-communicable diseases.
Most of these new crop varieties are designed to resist herbicides, so that farmers can adopt more environmentally friendly, no-till cultivation practices, and many have also been engineered to resist pests and diseases that ravage crops.
Because much of the loss to diseases and pests occurs after the plants are fully grown – that is, after most of the water required for their growth has already been supplied – resistance to them means more agricultural output per unit of water invested.
Most of the deaths were from communicable diseases, which malnourished people may well have contracted after crowding into feeding centers.
The important point is that within the next 10-15 years we will have identified hundreds of genes that predispose individuals to virtually all of the common, late-onset diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular, neurological, and metabolic diseases.
As with many other diseases afflicting the developing world, the science is hugely complex, and the commercial opportunity is limited.
To date, the malaria box has been shared with more than 250 research groups in 30 countries around the world, and has led to the initiation of several new drug- discovery programs across a range of neglected diseases.
One example of this type of collaboration is the world’s first “open lab” for research into diseases of the developing world, established in 2010 at GSK’s research site in Tres Cantos, Spain.
Perhaps vaccines are a victim of their own success: they work so well in protecting people against certain illnesses that many in the West have forgotten how devastating preventable diseases can be.
Globally, more than 11 children under the age of five die every minute, many of them in South Asia, from preventable diseases.
Despite the region’s progress, one in four children remain unprotected against diseases like measles and hepatitis, and the figures are even higher for major killers such as pneumonia and meningitis.
As pediatric professionals who have dedicated our lives to protecting children from preventable diseases, we believe it is within the world’s capacity to end this needless suffering.
Similar studies have taught us that sensitivity to alcohol consumption and resistance to diseases like malaria and leprosy also evolved within the last several thousand years.
The extension of prenatal diagnosis to an embryo in a laboratory dish will, in turn, reduce the incidence of certain types of genetically transmitted diseases.
Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.
A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global HealthNEW YORK – Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries.
And many die simply because there are no cures or vaccines, because so little of the world’s valuable research talent and limited resources is devoted to addressing the diseases of the poor.
Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
These diseases can be expensive to address if they are poorly managed and treated.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for about 50% of the global disease burden and some 75% of total health-care spending.
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