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Many surgical operations now considered routine, including joint replacements and Caesarean sections, can be performed safely only when antibiotics prevent opportunistic infections.
Insect-borne infections are being reported at high elevations in South and Central America, Asia, and east and central Africa.
Within 25 years, it will cause 10 million deaths a year worldwide –more than malaria, maternal deaths, childhood infections, and diarrhea combined .
Children in poor countries die from causes – such as unsafe childbirth, vaccine-preventable diseases, infections such as malaria for which low-cost treatments exist, and nutritional deficiencies – that have been almost totally eliminated in the rich countries.
The number of new HIV/AIDS infections has dropped by 40%.
Farmers use antimicrobials to treat infections in their livestock.
Every day, at hospitals and clinics around the world, patients are given antibiotics for bacterial infections like tuberculosis, gonorrhea, or pneumonia.
Others receive antibiotics prophylactically, to prevent bacterial infections during surgery, or when underlying conditions or treatments (such as chemotherapy) compromise their immunity.
More than a decade ago, the European Union banned antibiotics in agriculture for any purpose other than treating infections.
It has been known for decades that breast-fed children get sick with diarrhea and other infections less often than those fed with formula.
Every year, around 300,000 new infections, and 270,000 AIDS-related deaths, are recorded.
HIV/AIDS patients are also prone to other infections: an estimated 70% of South Africans with AIDS also contract tuberculosis, while half of those carrying the HIV virus are expected to do so during their lifetime.
As in developed countries, HIV infections initially were concentrated among hemophiliacs, sexually active gay men, and intravenous drug users.
These remedies have reduced the rate of new infections (though the total number of people living with HIV, especially aged 15-49, continues to rise).
Newborn infections, for example, could be further reduced by encouraging more pregnant mothers to visit health clinics for early monitoring and for checkups after delivery.
New fungal infections are even scarier and might be harder to treat.
Antimicrobial Resistance on the Global AgendaLONDON – November marked a setback in the fight against drug-resistant infections.
Even more alarming, they discovered that the gene providing the resistance could migrate from one strain of bacteria to another, meaning other types of infections could also become untreatable.
More people are being encouraged to wash their hands to minimize the spread of infections.
With 4.3 million new HIV infections each year throughout the world, we face an untenable situation, as new HIV infections far outstrip our ability to treat all those infected.
So improvements in our ability to prevent HIV infections from occurring are desperately needed.
MDR-TB is what happens when drugs lose potency against new strains of previously treatable infections.
Without concerted action, drug-resistant strains of other common infections such as Staphylococcus Aureus or E. coli will become ever more common, with seismic effects on global health and health-care systems worldwide.
As AMR renders established antibiotics ineffective, untreatable infections will make relatively routine procedures such as organ transplants or cancer chemotherapy increasingly risky.
The human and economic toll of rising AMR could easily spiral out of control: left unchecked, drug-resistant infections could claim ten million lives annually by 2050, with the cumulative cost in terms of global GDP reaching $100 trillion.
Dengue, ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the world’s most significant and fastest-growing mosquito-borne viral disease, causes nearly 50 million infections every year.
For example, HIV infections and deaths have stabilized, despite rapid population growth in Africa.
Exposure to smoke from hazardous methods of cooking, heating, and lighting kills nearly two million people each year, 85% of whom are women and children who die from associated cancer, respiratory infections, and lung disease.
And, if we really wanted to benefit the world, €2 billion could halve the number of malaria infections, saving 850 million lives this century.
Crowded housing, poor sanitation, and compromised immune systems, whether owing to malnutrition or chronic infections such as HIV, provide fertile ground for contagion.
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