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A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global HealthNEW YORK – Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries.
To counter the impression that it was turning common fears into treatable conditions, DSM-IV added a clause stipulating that social anxiety behaviors had to be “impairing” before a diagnosis was possible.
Diseases that in high-income countries are preventable, like cervical cancer, or treatable, such as diabetes, are often death sentences in developing countries.
The children died over the past decade from malnutrition and starvation, treatable infections, pneumonia, “accidents,” and neglect.
In fact, the poor die of known and identifiable causes that are largely preventable and treatable at very low cost.
And, as Amnesty International’s Americas director recently reported, “People in Venezuela are fleeing an agonizing situation that has transformed treatable health conditions into matters of life and death.”
Sophisticated X-ray diagnostic techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.
Cancers that are detected early – when they are small and less likely to have metastasized (spread away from the primary tumor) – are more likely to be treatable with local therapy, whereas successful treatment is ultimately unlikely once metastatic tumors develop.
Indeed, many still die from infections, such as bacterial pneumonia, that should be easily treatable.
Financing Health and Education for AllNEW YORK – In 2015, around 5.9 million children under the age of five, almost all in developing countries, died from easily preventable or treatable causes.
Yet even in Africa, Malaria is largely preventable and completely treatable at low cost.
Preventable and treatable diseases plague the population.
For example, obesity and poor dental health (just Google “dental health impact on general health”) are not only treatable; they are also generally preventable.
When the world’s governments launch the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this September, they will rightly put education for all children at the forefront, alongside ending extreme poverty, hunger, and death from preventable and treatable causes.
By contrast, in the developing world, millions of people die each year from treatable diseases like malaria, owing to the lack of sophisticated laboratories and alternative diagnostic tests.
But imagine an alternative scenario: You are diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening infectious disease that was once treatable in weeks or months, but you are told that your treatment will take at least two years, and will involve months of daily injections and some 14,000 pills, with severe side effects.
MDR-TB is what happens when drugs lose potency against new strains of previously treatable infections.
Owing to these system-level priorities, one million children are dying from a preventable, treatable condition every four years.
But so do the lives lost every day to preventable and treatable diseases.
Second, millions of impoverished people die tragic deaths each year from infectious diseases that are preventable and treatable simply because they lack access to the needed health services.
Globally, six million children and adolescents, and 2.8 million pregnant women and newborns, die from preventable or treatable diseases annually.
A form of acute respiratory infection, pneumonia is detectable, treatable, and preventable.
Given that cholera is preventable and treatable, this never should have happened.
Millions of children die each year as a result of treatable diseases like pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea, because their parents cannot afford health fees, or because clinics lack trained health workers, drugs, and vital diagnostic equipment.
Over five million young lives are still being lost every year – almost half in the first month of life – to preventable or treatable diseases like pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea.
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