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The number of obstacles faced by scientists and public health experts in the race to contain deadly infectious diseases is staggering.
True, almost all regions of the world are currently experiencing an increase in the prevalence of NCDs – in part because, as deaths from acute infectious diseases and injuries decline, people live long enough to develop these diseases.
Globalizing the Fight Against Non-Communicable DiseaseMONTREAL – Global health organizations and initiatives – and, in particular, the World Health Organization – have traditionally focused on infectious diseases, from malaria (their great failure) to smallpox (their greatest success).
The WHO’s budget is small, and its primary focus remains infectious diseases.
The reality is that infectious diseases – immediate, life-threatening, and capable of spreading widely thanks to modern transportation – are compelling targets.
Back then – in the early 1930’s – there was no vaccine for this highly infectious disease.
Many people in poor countries die from cancers that are preventable or treatable in wealthier societies, but they often succumb to other scourges as well, such as infectious diseases.
Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization, and Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), noted in a recent article that most developing countries’ health-care systems are designed to cope with infectious diseases rather than cancer.
As the United Nations’ own data make clear, infectious diseases, many of them preventable and treatable, remain the scourge of poorer populations.
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.
Moreover, keeping large concentrations of animals in confined spaces facilitates the proliferation of infectious diseases that can spread to humans, such as avian flu.
Innovative multilateral partnerships like the Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – of which the United States is the largest funder – have saved millions of lives, as they have reduced the burden of infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.
This year, we’ve gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead: more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.
Leprosy is thus an infectious disease; it is not hereditary, let alone a divine punishment.
The first dose of MDT kills 99.9% of the bacteria that cause leprosy, rendering the person no longer infectious.
The WHO recommends what it calls a “Directly Observed Therapy Strategy” (DOTS) and has set diagnostic thresholds of at least 70% of infectious cases, and curative thresholds of 85%.
Once grown and harvested, the rice kernel is processed to extract and purify the proteins for use in oral rehydration solution for treating diarrhea, which is surpassed only by respiratory diseases as the leading infectious killer of children under the age of five in developing countries.
Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.
These parasites make their hosts seek a higher elevation, which expands the reach of their infectious spores or particles.
The interdependencies in the global economy (in areas as diverse as financial markets, product safety, infectious diseases, natural resource dependency, and global warming) have outrun our collective capacity to manage them and coordinate policy responses.
The result is a continuing disaster for the poorest countries, where the burden of infectious disease is rising starkly, in diseases ranging from Malaria, to HIV/AIDs and Tuberculosis.
The alarming rise in infectious diseases will burden the whole world, not just the poorest countries.
Piping clean water without improving sanitation can in some cases actually exacerbate the spread of infectious agents.
Meanwhile, global efforts to slow climate change, promote trade, set new rules for the digital age, and prevent or contain outbreaks of infectious diseases are inadequate.
Today, issues such as infectious diseases, environmental degradation, electronic crimes, weapons of mass destruction, and the impact of new technologies are of importance.
Brazil also needs budgetary space to accommodate needed investment in social infrastructure, especially sanitation and basic health-care facilities, in order to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases.
Yet this has been inadequate to stem the spread of disease; in fact, with many of the new and emerging infectious diseases affecting humans originating in animals, veterinarians, microbiologists, and epidemiologists have been trying to understand the “ecology of disease” (how nature, and humanity’s impact on it, spreads disease).
Integration of services for infectious diseases and primary care has contributed to some of the steepest declines in child and maternal mortality ever observed.
Unfortunately, infectious diseases are far from under control around the world.
Infectious diseases neither respect national borders nor conveniently follow economies into recession.
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