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Around eight million impoverished people will die of these three preventable and treatable diseases in 2004.
Yet malaria is preventable and treatable.
Vaccination’s Lifetime of BlessingsCAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream that everyone shares.
At the same time, we must make the most of scientific advances over the last half-century, which have made vaccines for other preventable diseases the most powerful and cost-effective health-care investment that currently exists.
Having grown up in a country where nearly one in four children infected with polio died from the disease, my heart soars when I imagine a world in which all families have access to lifesaving vaccines, freeing them from the burden of preventable death and 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.
As the United Nations’ own data make clear, infectious diseases, many of them preventable and treatable, remain the scourge of poorer populations.
The tragedy is that these deaths are almost entirely preventable.
Health-Care Innovation in the Global SouthDHAKA – Children die from preventable and treatable conditions like diarrhea and pneumonia every day, with the developing world accounting for the majority of victims.
Its people are dying from starvation, from preventable and curable diseases (at much higher rates than the Latin American average), and from violence – including, in some cases, gunshot wounds inflicted by their own government.
The radical case is that the pre-crisis economy crashed not because of preventable mistakes in banking, but because money had become the sole arbiter of value.
Our choice could not be clearer: either we resolve to answer the call of history and provide the Global Fund with the resources that it needs, or we allow political lassitude to undermine a decade of progress and consign untold thousands to preventable deaths.
Ironically, many deaths would be preventable by existing vaccines (such as for measles), but the populations are often too poor to have access to even basic public health.
But, with millions of children under the age of five dying each year from preventable and treatable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia, the job is far from finished.
The vast majority of these deaths are due to preventable complications such as bleeding and infection.
If we increase investments in health now, by 2030 we can be that much closer to a world in which no parent loses a child – and no child loses a parent – to preventable causes.
But, unfortunately, despite encouraging signs of progress, barely 40% of people at risk for these preventable diseases receive the medicine they require.
Such initiatives are another dramatic example of a basic truth of our time: extreme poverty, illiteracy, and death from preventable diseases are anachronistic scourges when we have the technologies and global goodwill to end them.
In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations’ World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and repel Anopheles mosquitoes.
Indeed, more than 25% of preventable deaths in developing countries are due to TB.
Since 1990, preventable child deaths have declined by 50%, and maternal mortality has fallen by 45%.
But far too many mothers and newborns are still dying from preventable causes.
A majority of these deaths – 56%, to be precise – are preventable.
Everyday, nearly 100 children die from hunger and preventable diseases.
Despite being preventable and curable, it is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, and the most common cause of death by an infectious agent in modern times.
But, for the most part, a universal set of maladies has emerged over the past decade, accounting for the vast bulk of ill health and preventable death in all regions of the world.
The MDGs focus on ending extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease.
The fact that the study found that the greatest benefits of vaccination were among the poorest suggests not only that poorer people are more vulnerable and have a higher risk of developing preventable diseases, but also that the impact on their lives is potentially greater.
By contrast, Italy’s center-left Democratic Party government has made vaccinations against 12 preventable diseases compulsory for all children.
But by allowing misinformed parents to forego vaccinations, Greece is exposing children to preventable infectious diseases and openly violating its pledge to ensure “that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such health-care services.”
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