... Medical School in 1984 had died by 2004—most, presumably, of
AIDS. Similar numbers have been registered in South Africa, where a small study
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Health ... since the
country's independence in 1964 remain in their home country. Nor is it surprising
that a 1999 survey of medical students in Ghana in their final...
... each year. New research, new
policies, and new funding mechanisms were called for. Some of the requisite
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The optimism born of the world's ... the WHO's direct investigation
of a wide range of global health problems, including pandemic influenza, in any
member state—were strengthened and brought into force in...
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AIDS
Chapter 182 provides an overview of the AIDS epidemic in the world
today. Here we will limit ourselves to a discussion of AIDS in ... of AIDS in the developing
world.
Lessons learned in tackling AIDS in resource-constrained settings are
highly relevant to discussions of other chronic diseases, including
n...
... registered in U.S. hospitals is not
confined to the industrialized world or to bacterial infections. In some settings, a
substantial minority of patients with TB are infected with strains resistant ... conclusions, many of them pertinent to global
health in general (Fig. 2-3).
First, charging fees for AIDS prevention and care will pose insurmountable
problems for people living...
... surveys of
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Diabetes
The International Diabetes Federation reports that the number of diabetics
in the world is expected to increase from ...
for 20% of lower respiratory infections in developed countries and for as many as
42% of such infections in developing countries. Various forms of unintentional
injury and malar...
... The
latter report reflects growth in the available data on health in the poorest countries
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The Economics of Global Health
Political and economic ... cycle."
International financial institutions, including the World Bank and the IMF,
have counseled limited investments and the capping of social expenditures in
i...
... Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2). Published in 2006, DCP2 is a
document of stunning breadth and ambition, providing cost-effectiveness analyses
for >100 interventions and including 21 chapters ... point, we turn in greater detail to AIDS, which has
become, in the course of the last three decades, the world's leading infectious
cause of death during adulthood.
C...
... data-collection methods in sub-Saharan Africa are
inadequate and indicators may thus lag behind actual outcomes of ongoing
campaigns, they nevertheless acknowledge that "RBM is acting against a
background ... mortality: the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs),
combination antimalarial therapy, and indoor residual spraying.
ITNs are an efficacious and cost-effective public h...
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Limited success in scaling-up ITN coverage reflects the inadequately
acknowledged economic barriers that prevent the destitute sick from accessing
critical ... malaria control will continue to require careful
study of appropriate preventive and therapeutic strategies in the context of our
increasingly sophisticated molecular understand...
... research and
investment have long focused on the ischemic conditions that are increasingly
common in high- and middle-income countries. Meanwhile, despite awareness of
its health impact during the ... organs—cardiovascular diseases reflect injury to a
single organ system downstream of a variety of insults. The burden of chronic
cardiovascular disease in low-income countries represent...