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China blocked Taiwan's entry into the Word Health Organization even though the SARS epidemic inflicted heavy casualties on the island earlier this year.
There is also the chance of another epidemic, as outbreaks of SARS, MERS, Ebola, and other infectious diseases have shown in recent years.
These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair.
Trump’s War on Maternal HealthWASHINGTON, DC – In December 2014, the cover of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue featured Salome Karwah, a nursing assistant who not only survived the Ebola epidemic in her native Liberia that year, but also helped waves of patients arriving at her Ebola ward.
One year ago, she died from complications in childbirth, a killer that every month takes twice as many lives as the entire Ebola epidemic.
When the West African Ebola epidemic spun out of control in 2014, the US led the world in marshaling financial and human resources to confront the crisis.
Add to that concerns about America’s growing opioid epidemic and a tedious and intolerant form of political correctness, and, for many, change did not look like progress.
It encompasses research initiatives and global public goods such as vaccines and emergency-preparedness programs for epidemic outbreaks.
The progress that the world has made in helping the poorest in the last 15 years is the kind of good-news story that happens one life at a time, so it often does not have the same visibility as a big setback, such as the outbreak of a new epidemic.
Taxing TobaccoGENEVA – Over the last ten years, impressive gains have been made in the battle against the tobacco epidemic.
If the tobacco epidemic is left unaddressed, the WHO estimates that it will kill one billion people over the course of this century.
In order to offset this, the WHO has identified six policies – encapsulated in the acronym MPOWER – that can stamp out the tobacco epidemic: Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies; protect people from tobacco smoke; offer help to quit tobacco use; warn people about the dangers of tobacco; enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship; and raise taxes on tobacco.
Each letter of the acronym is important and necessary in the fight against the tobacco epidemic.
Governments have made tremendous progress in the fight against the tobacco epidemic through the implementation of multiple MPOWER measures, but many could be doing much more if they were willing to raise taxes on tobacco.
By raising the cost of tobacco, we have the potential to reverse the epidemic, prevent widespread illness and suffering, and save millions of lives every year.
The Shadow PlagueThe XIVth International Conference on AIDS in Barcelona last month put the global HIV epidemic back in the spotlight--justifiably so.
The increase in diabetes as a result of population fattening is causing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease in a country where only one in four can expect to receive treatment.
The End of EbolaDAKAR – The Ebola epidemic is threatening not only West Africans’ lives, but also the progress toward democracy, economic growth, and social integration that Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have made in the last decade.
In order to protect their achievements, the three countries’ governments, which comprise the Mano River Union, must buttress their response to the current epidemic with a coordinated strategy to prevent future outbreaks.
After all, clinical research to assess the safety and effectiveness of new drugs and vaccines can happen only during an epidemic.
In fact, the current Ebola epidemic is not the first public-health disaster to highlight the failings of the existing system.
The countries affected by today’s devastating Ebola epidemic will undoubtedly feel its impact for years to come.
Polar bears, which pile on fat to survive hibernation and yet do not become diabetic, may also hold clues for treating Type II diabetes, a disease associated with obesity that afflicts more than 190 million people worldwide, reaching epidemic proportions in many countries.
Under FHC, Brazil pioneered an effective response to the AIDS epidemic by guaranteeing access to antiretroviral medicines and to widespread counseling and viral testing.
Staying on Track to End MalariaBASEL – Ending an epidemic is a marathon undertaking, and in the case of malaria, we are nearing the finish line.
Through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the world has formally committed to ending the malaria epidemic by 2030.
But Burma’s regime actually perpetuates conditions that sustain and worsen the HIV/AIDS epidemic by restricting access to counseling, medication, and other support services.
Despite the dominance of the Iraq story, China is back in the headlines, with the country excoriated for its evasiveness about the SARS epidemic, and praised for its suddenly constructive role in helping to bring about negotiations between the US and North Korea, over North Korea's nuclear insubordination.
China's response to the SARS epidemic suggests an almost automatic defensiveness when the outside world seems to impinge on it or threaten it in some potentially harmful or embarrassing way.
So China's first reaction to SARS was to bury the news of a public health epidemic in the making.
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