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For years, scientists, physicians, and civil-society actors have voiced concern over the lack of reliable, meaningful, and institutionalized investment in
pandemic
preparedness.
All of these factors are certainly related to the "insidious, creeping
pandemic
of obesity . . .
Africa’s AIDS
pandemic
is well known; its malaria pandemic, which will claim three million lives and a billion illnesses this year, is not.
In Zimbabwe, after 4,300 people died in the 2008-2009 cholera pandemic, the AfDB and other donors supported the $43.6 million Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project, which made emergency repairs to wastewater systems in urban areas, helping 2.5 million people.
The End of AIDSNEW YORK – The AIDS
pandemic
claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus.
Moreover, Russia possesses talented people, technology, and resources that can help to meet new challenges like climate change or the spread of
pandemic
diseases.
But the poorest people – those who live on less than $2 per day – are often not considered important when a
pandemic
threat emerges.
It is equally difficult – if not impossible – for countries to isolate themselves from terrorism, weapons,
pandemic
disease, or climate change.
We are facing many crises – food, energy, recession, and
pandemic
flu – occurring all at once.
So here’s a primer on the swine flu
pandemic
risk communication, framed in terms of what health officials shouldn’t do when they’re telling you about this new disease.
Smart officials are planning for various swine flu
pandemic
scenarios, and expecting surprises that will force them to change their plans.
So far, this
pandemic
is mild.
While panic is rare, it is natural for people to need some time to adjust to a new risk – and this swine flu
pandemic
is new to us all.
Officials who promise – or imply – that they can keep this
pandemic
from their borders, or stop it once it has arrived, are setting themselves up for public outrage later.
They shouldn’t urge urban residents with underlying health conditions to “avoid crowds” without acknowledging empathically that it’s impossible to avoid crowds entirely for the duration of the
pandemic.
Eventually, a severe
pandemic
will strike, whether it’s H1N1 or not, and we should do what we can, now, to prepare.
Unless there is a global catastrophe – a meteorite impact, a world war, or a
pandemic
– mankind will remain a major environmental force for many millennia.
But nothing will be done until Europe wakes up and faces its
pandemic.
But as the court’s ruling sinks in, commercial breeders and animal rights groups face a crucial question: could the creation of a legal market for farmed horns curb a poaching
pandemic
that claims some 1,500 wild rhinos annually?
Rebooting Nuclear SecurityVIENNA – In these days of economic woe, potential
pandemic
disease, and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around the world still view nuclear conflict as the greatest threat facing humanity.
Yet, as Africa burns, as the AIDS
pandemic
spreads, and as it becomes clearer that the material means at the disposal of those who ache for a better world do not match their moral aspirations, such choices will become more and more pressing.
As a result, increased burden-sharing among Asia-Pacific countries is needed to confront shared threats like cross-border terrorism,
pandemic
diseases, climate change and environmental degradation, and trafficking of people, drugs, and weapons.
Fighting the Aids PandemicCAMBRIDGE: After a wasted decade, the world is rousing itself against the AIDS
pandemic
sweeping through the world’s poorest countries, especially in Africa and South-Asia.
The
pandemic
has claimed 19 million lives, and created 13 million orphans.
HIV/AIDS is the greatest
pandemic
in modern history.
It is time to shift from inaction to urgent combat against the pandemic, backed by billions of dollars in assistance from rich countries.
Hard Truths about Bird FluThe issues surrounding the possibility of a
pandemic
of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing medicine, epidemiology, virology, and even politics and ethics.
A recent New York Times editorial, for example, decried wealthy countries’ “me first” attitude toward a possible H5N1 pandemic, because “[t]he best hope of stopping a pandemic, or at least buying time to respond, is to improve surveillance and health practices in East Africa and Asia, where one would probably begin.”
Intensive animal husbandry procedures that place billions of poultry and swine in close proximity to humans, combined with unsanitary conditions, poverty, and grossly inadequate public health infrastructure of all kinds, make it unlikely that a
pandemic
can be prevented or contained at the source.
In theory, it is possible to contain a flu
pandemic
in its early stages by performing “ring prophylaxis” – using anti-flu drugs and quarantine aggressively to isolate relatively small outbreaks of a human-to-human transmissible strain of H5N1.
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