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In the midst of the epidemic, 66% of Mexicans believe that the country is regressing.
At the same time, it has allowed farmers across China to fall victim to an epidemic of illegal land grabs by local governments and developers.
But even when a crisis, like a cyber attack or an epidemic, erupts unexpectedly, the ensuing market disruption usually lasts only as long as it takes for investors to reassess discount rates and future profit streams.
Teams of researchers have written 18 papers identifying the most effective ways to tackle the epidemic, looking at what has been proven to work, and at what could be scaled up or replicated elsewhere in Africa.
But the way the authorities are handling the epidemic is having the opposite effect.
The key reason that the epidemic can be ended is a scientific finding back in 2011 that showed that HIV-positive individuals receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment suppress the HIV virus in their bloodstreams so dramatically that they are very unlikely to transmit the virus to others through sex or shared needles.
If a high enough proportion of HIV-positive individuals receive ARV treatment, it is possible not only to save their lives, but also to break the transmission of the virus itself, thereby ending the epidemic.
If 72% of those infected today can no longer infect others, the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be curtailed.
The ongoing epidemic would grind to a halt, just as a measles epidemic among children in a metropolitan area ends when 80% percent of the children are vaccinated, even if the other 20% percent of children remain unvaccinated.
Yet, despite the potential to bring the AIDS epidemic to an end, the world is currently stuck in limbo.
The creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, together with US President George W. Bush's recent proposal to add $10 billion in funds to fight HIV/AIDS, mean that the financial weapons needed to wage the fight against this epidemic are beginning to arrive.
But if there's one lesson the HIV/AIDS virus has taught public health officials, it is that waiting only creates opportunities for the epidemic that will cost us millions of lives.
The opioid epidemic, for example, has become a heavy burden for the US government (and thus taxpayers), as it has strained law enforcement and the health system.
That epidemic has spread to all ten departments of the country, as well as to the capital, Port au Prince.
Clearly, the epidemic will continue to spread.
At issue is an attempt to stop an epidemic, the carriers of which in 20th century Europe have been nazism, communism, fascism, and now, nationalism.
Military doctor Jiang Yanyong was detained in 2003 after he publicly rebutted the Party’s assertion that the SARS epidemic had been brought under control.
Another epidemic afflicting African women is violence, all too often perpetrated with impunity.
History has shown that retreating from the fight against an epidemic can lead to a renewed plague that is immune to our best drugs, requiring far more expensive measures to control.
In October 2005, a United Nations task force identified as one of the root causes of the bird flu epidemic, “farming methods which crowd huge numbers of animals into small spaces.”
Recently, the US Senate approved spending $8 billion to stockpile vaccines and other drugs to help prevent a possible bird flu epidemic.
But illegal, undeclared, and unreported (IUU) fishing off Africa’s coasts has reached epidemic proportions, depriving coastal communities of income and opportunities.
But global health emergencies like the current Ebola epidemic highlight the folly of these fiscal priorities.
And when members of the international community cannot contain the epidemic, the richest and most powerful actor, namely the US, has an obligation to step in and try to do so.
But his decision came only after the epidemic had been smoldering for many months, with 6,000 Ebola cases confirmed and many more believed to be undetected.
The next epidemic could be just around the corner.
The primary causes of this recent epidemic are germs and mites, but these have always been with us.
And now, in the United States – arguably the mother of global consumer culture – the debate has turned toward the fight against the epidemic of childhood obesity.
The causes of obesity are complex, and the science of understanding human behavior is embryonic; but it is not hyperbole to call the problem an epidemic.
The risks posed by this epidemic are manifold, but the main one is that childhood obesity begets adult obesity, with significantly increased risks of diabetes and heart disease.
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