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Republics of MurderRIO DE JANEIRO – Latin America is in the grip of a homicide epidemic.
As the homicide epidemic has become normalized, it has eroded people’s compassion and motivation to demand more from their governments.
All of us involved in the campaign will work toward developing concrete solutions to the root causes of the homicide epidemic.
Because of similar ignorance, this terrible epidemic now looms over the former Soviet Union and other regions.
Continuing resistance to calls to restructure anti-drug strategies and goals will only worsen the HIV epidemic and contribute to the deaths of millions of vulnerable people.
Some suspected an epidemic of "brain fever" of some sort.
Dealing with the global epidemic of chronic diseases requires us to address this 80%, and doing so cannot be left to traditional health-care organizations alone.
Evidence from two of the states that have been hit hardest by the opioid epidemic is sobering.
I was national coordinator of Ebola burials for Sierra Leone at the height of the epidemic.
Largely due to Malawi’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, the country has a million such orphans.
Fast Food’s “Ethnic Insights”NEW YORK – There is no denying the fast-food industry’s contribution to America’s obesity epidemic.
In conflict zones, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF recently observed, sexual violence usually spreads like an epidemic.
For example, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which once seemed insurmountable, has now largely been brought under control.
Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential treatments and vaccines, indicating that they already had the ability to produce plausible candidates.
There is reason to believe that concern in the US about its worsening opioid epidemic, which supposedly originates in the poppy fields of Mexico, will intensify the war effort – and, with it, human-rights violations.
Fat-related diabetes is becoming epidemic in India.
If you’re looking for reasons behind today’s obesity epidemic, don’t stop with the usual suspects, all of which are being trotted out by the press: fast food, trans fat, high sugar, low exercise, computer games, strange bacteria in your gut, weird molecules in your blood.
Yet the current debate about the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer – has ignored this advice.
If the Doha Round fails, trade liberalization would shift from the WTO to preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which are already spreading like an epidemic.
We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate.
The same thing happened, on a much larger scale, during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
It is believed that the epidemic first took hold in the forested regions of Guinea in December 2013, then gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The international community was content to ignore the truth, until the epidemic had become so widespread that they no longer could.
If even a few SARS cases are present among the millions of flu-like cases that will appear this autumn, it will be critical to identify and isolate them to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that scourged China earlier this year.
Rapid and effective isolation of infected cases, together with efficient tracing and monitoring of the contacts made by those infected with SARS, allowed public health officials in Hong Kong, Toronto, Singapore, and Vietnam to contain the epidemic.
Although transition was bound to be painful, Russia's epidemic of corruption caused more political damage than the economic side effects of reform.
One model worth emulating in the fight against both TB and NCDs is the approach taken to confront the HIV epidemic.
In 2008, there were 418,000 homicides around the world, with far too many countries recording a murder rate of more than 10 per 100,000, which the World Health Organization regards as an epidemic.
The flu epidemic, which probably began in the southern state of Veracruz, is yet another sign that all is not well in Mexico.
Throughout the epidemic, citizens have largely obeyed government guidelines and followed public health prescriptions.
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