with the most pronounced shifts occurring in sub-Saharan Africa (60·1% [95% UI 56·8-63·1] of DALYs were from CMNNs in 2022 compared with 35·8% [31·0-45·0] in 2050) and south Asia (31·7% [29·2-34·1] to 15·5% [13·7-17·5]). This shift is reflected...
South Asia has the highest age-standardised overall prevalence of MSVI (6·44%, 5·79–7·13). The largest number of blind people live in South Asia (11·9 million, 10·4–13·4), followed by east Asia (9·1 million, 7·9–10·3), and southeast Asia (5·9 million, 5·2–6...
Sustain, accelerate, innovate: the burden of liver disease and way forward in the WHO South-East Asia region The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 100-102 Poonam Khetrapal Singh Time to act to make elimination of viral hepatitis a reality The Lance...
A Kongsted);Department o,Health Pro(essions)Facultyo,MedicineandHealth Sciences,Macquarie University(Sydney)Australia (MJ HancockPhD);Facultyo,Medicineand Health Sciences,Physiotherapy Division and Departmento,Health and Rehabilitation Sciences,Stellenbosch University,Tygerberg,South ...
(east Asia and Pacific, Europe and central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, south Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) using World Bank classifications (appendixhas definitions of these income groups and the list of countries in each group). We ...
In 2016, the per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) in North America was more than 34 times higher than in south Asia or sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 92 times higher than in low-income countries generally.23 These extraordinary disparities in access to the fruits of the global economy are...