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This includes: funds to stop the transmission of AIDS from mothers to infants; funds to help fight infections such as tuberculosis that accompany AIDS; and with good program design, even funds for anti-retroviral therapies.
There are many possible interventions – such as providing folic acid to prevent birth defects, introducing new vaccines, or treating infections earlier – that we know could have an impact on child mortality.
On the day Thier visited, there were 40 confirmed malaria infections, and malaria remains the leading killer in the district, despite the fact that it can be treated for about $3.
For now, it seems that all of the human H5N1 infections have been contracted from contact with infected poultry.
If the pandemic were to begin relatively soon – say, within a year or two – there would be little that could be done to attenuate significantly the first wave of infections.
To tackle the problem permanently, the only option is to prevent infections from occurring in the first place – with improved hygiene, sanitation, and disease surveillance.
Indeed, in the nineteenth century, long before modern drugs were available, major Western cities tackled diseases by seeking to prevent infections.
Advances in prevention and treatment have reduced annual HIV infections by one-third over the past decade, and cut AIDS-related deaths by 30% over the past five years.
Even in the best-case scenario for maximizing existing prevention and treatment, at least a half-million new HIV infections would occur annually in low- and middle-income countries by 2050.
Equally important, the risks and types of life-threatening infections that come with myelosuppression were increasingly recognized, leading to the development and better use of more effective antibiotics.
The children died over the past decade from malnutrition and starvation, treatable infections, pneumonia, “accidents,” and neglect.
One of the pharmaceutical companies I met with recently showed me evidence that the use of antibiotics in treating young children in Iceland has plummeted since 2011, owing to vaccinations against pneumococcal infections.
As the Review showed, one of the best ways to prevent the overuse of antibiotics is to prevent infections in the first place.
Each year, some 700,000 people die from drug-resistant infections worldwide.
But superbugs also pose a threat to the effectiveness of modern medicine; if left unaddressed, AMR could make more infections untreatable, cancer therapies ineffective, routine surgeries impossible, and even childbirth unsafe.
For example, immunizations against bacterial brain and lung infections – like childhood pneumococcal illnesses and Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib – have dramatically reduced the disease burden in the US and around the world, lowering the need for antibiotics in the process.
Although more needs to be done to strengthen R&D pipelines for new diagnostic tools and antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections, similar attention must be devoted to vaccine discovery, development, and uptake.
Squashing the SuperbugsLONDON – Current antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective, not only at fighting common illnesses like pneumonia and urinary tract infections, but also at treating a range of infections, such as tuberculosis and malaria, which now risk again becoming incurable.
After all, if infections travel with the people who carry them, so does resistance, meaning that the only solution to AMR is a shared one.
Consider one of the most common infections: sore throats.
A third imperative, recommended by the Review and recognized by the G-7, is improved surveillance of the spread of drug-resistant infections, particularly in developing countries, where such data is most sparse.
Indeed, from fertilization on, the environment in which the fertilized egg develops – for example, what the mother eats, whether she smokes or drinks alcohol, and whether she develops diseases or infections – places so-called epigenetic marks on the DNA or on the proteins surrounding it, affecting its function.
It increases susceptibility to common childhood infections such as measles and diarrheal diseases, and is the single most important cause of childhood blindness in developing countries.
The refusal to include the words “harm reduction” seems motivated by ideology rather than science, despite clear evidence showing that needle exchange and substitution treatment keep drug users alive and free of deadly infections.
Unless we confront it head-on, we could return to a world in which it is common for people to die from basic infections.
I was also given vaccines to prevent life-threatening infections such as polio and measles.
There is no excuse for millions of deaths from malaria, AIDS, TB, polio, measles, diarrhea, or respiratory infections, or for so many women and infants to die in or after childbirth.
Yet the potential to control malaria was actually improving, thanks to several newly emerging technologies: long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent the mosquitos from biting, better diagnostics to identify infections, and a new generation of highly effective medicines.
Children were spared not only death but also debilitating infections, enabling them to attend school and lead more productive lives in the future.
In a sense, the world is headed backward, as once-treatable microbes become resistant to existing therapies, and new infections for which there are no effective interventions continue to arise.
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