Choose a region: Worldwide Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, but can potentially spread to other areas of the body, including the brain and spine. There are two types of TB, latent TB and active TB. With latent TB, bacteria remain in the body...
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This introductory book chapter gives an overview of international initiatives in urban health in developing countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) ... T Harpham,M Tanner - 《Urban Health in Developing Countries Progress & Prospects》 被引量: 153发表: 1995年 Women and tuberculosis. [Review...
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This might be the result of Yemenis having a reduced life expectancy and poor lung cancer diagnosis, with a focus on tuberculosis rather than lung cancer [3, 11, 15]. But according to the most recent world health organization (WHO) report on the global tobacco epidemic, published in 2017,...
A pandemic is basically the outbreak and spread of a particular disease on a worldwide level, i.e., to more than one continent. To date, the pandemic of diseases such as cholera, plague, influenza, HIV/AIDS, swine flu, tuberculosis, Russian flu, COVID-19, etc. has been observed. Pand...
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s second-largest infectious disease after COVID-19. In 2020, TB accounted for an estimated 1.5 million deaths (including people with HIV). After South Africa, India is the leading country with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS worldwide. New infectious diseases such...
690,000 people worldwide died from AIDS in 2019 Almost 75.7 million people have been infected with the virus since the start of the HIV epidemic. 44.9% of adolescents were not aware of being infected by HIV. Almost 99% of HIV infections can be prevented through consistent use of PrEP. ...
HIV/tuberculosis Tuberculosis-related deaths in people living with HIV have fallen by 33% since 2004. - Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, with an estimated 360 000 [310 000–410 000] deaths in 2013. - In 2013, the percentage of identified HIV-...
92% of the world wide cases, resulted in deaths in sSA. Currently there is a threat with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A sharp rise in non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, depression and obesity, is evident in the region...