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And the pandemic alert was doubly strange, given that ordinary seasonal flu sweeps the world annually, is invariably far more lethal than the currently circulating low-virulence H1N1, and certainly meets the WHO’s definition of a pandemic: infections over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
In a country with high teenage birthrates and staggering levels of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, these percentages are deeply troubling.
Local healthcare clinics started bundling testing and treatment for the two diseases; and, as anti-viral medications have become available in Africa, the rate of TB infections in HIV patients has begun to fall.
By 2050, she estimates, drug-resistant infections could be killing someone “every three seconds.”
The WHO estimates that increased use of PrEP could reduce HIV infections by up to 25% over the next decade among men who have sex with men (this category includes anyone with elevated risk, not just those who identify as gay).
Today, these policies are contributing to an explosion of HIV infections in much of the developing world.
As many as 1.5 million Russians and 400,000 Ukrainians are estimated to have HIV; at least 85% of known infections are attributed to intravenous drug use.
For starters, breastfed babies are less likely to contract ear infections and meningitis, or to suffer gastrointestinal illnesses and diarrhea.
Nonetheless, a bone marrow transplant unit, financed largely by Japan, had just opened in the same hospital – placing the most vulnerable patients at the mercy of deadly infections.
New HIV infections have dropped by as much as 50% in some countries in Africa, with AIDS-related deaths down by 30-48%;TB cases have declined by 40%, and malaria cases by 30%.
For example, setting goals for reductions in new TB infections would enable health officials to measure more accurately the impact of their strategies.
Global infection rates are falling by about 2% annually, and even African countries hit by TB still managed a 4% decline in infections from 2013 to 2017.
For a range of infections – including strains of pneumonia, E. coli, and gonorrhea – there are no replacements in reserve.
From 2010 to 2015, as part of the global Millennium Development Goals, the continent reduced the malaria incidence rate (the number of new infections) by 21% and malaria deaths by 31%.
Despite the high rate of HIV/AIDS infections, Malawi’s population, like that of many developing nations, is growing rapidly.
They do not know what sex is, much less that unprotected sex can lead to pregnancy or put them at risk of sexually transmitted infections, like HIV.
They are vulnerable to the complications of early pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, fistulas, and death in childbirth.
People living with a chronic disease may die not only from that disease, but also from other causes – including other NCDs, acute infections, and injuries.
But, as I point out in my forthcoming book Cool It, even if we could stop global warming right now – which is impossible – we could reduce malaria infections by only 3.2% by 2085.
The ACA has been changing that, by establishing myriad new incentives to foster efficiency in health-care delivery – for example, by reducing costly and unnecessary hospital infections and readmissions, and by adopting electronic health records.
Mired in corruption, poverty, and hopelessness, it is stained by the highest rates of AIDS infections anywhere in Europe and by startling rates of drug abuse.
I find this to be a rational strategy, given the heavy toll that infections take, and that many can be prevented and treated at a relatively modest cost.
Although new HIV infections worldwide declined slightly during the past decade, 2.7 million people contracted the virus in 2008, and there were two million HIV/AIDS-related deaths.
Primitive approaches to managing sewage continue to spread infections such as schistosomiasis, trachoma, viral hepatitis, and cholera.
Many cancers are likely caused by chronic viral infections, another reason that it is surely more sensible to attack infectious diseases by improving access to clean water, basic sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines than it is to build radiotherapy facilities.
Vaccines to prevent hepatitis A and B (and C, when one becomes available) reduce the incidence not only of the viral infections, but also of sequelae such as cirrhosis and hepatic carcinoma.
To date, more than 8,500 infections and 3,500 deaths have been reported just in Sierra Leone.
Some patients actually are infected with flu; others have colds or other respiratory infections, many of which also peak in the winter.
Like other respiratory infections, SARS may be easier to contract, more severe, or both, during winter.
There are 2.4 million new infections annually and 34 million people living with HIV/AIDS who require treatment to stay alive.
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