Nowadays, the impact of disease in one country is ultimately felt by all.

The disproportionate impact of HIV AIDS on women and girls is leading to a feminization of the disease.

Poverty, disease, pollution, terrorism and violence have a worldwide impact and they are all interconnected.

In its report, CPF states that a global information system is monitoring the impact of insect pest and disease outbreaks on forests.

It fosters the involvement of principal stakeholders, especially local communities and those public sectors whose actions impact vector ecology and disease transmission.

Tuberculosis. Support from the Global Fund will have a positive impact on programme actions and on reducing the incidence and prevalence of the disease.

Today, the disease has a truly global impact, claiming 1.8 million lives annually the equivalent of wiping out the population of Washington, DC, three times every year.

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy they're all problems that are confronted by having cities.

Similar quick impact measures should be undertaken to control disease. Small rural clinics can be built or rebuilt very quickly, within the first year of peace.

NEW HAVEN World Kidney Day, to be held on March 12, is part of a global health campaign meant to alert us to the impact of kidney disease.

As with many diseases, the patient's age, physical state and previous medical history with respect to infections may impact the disease progression and outcome.

World Kidney Day (WKD) is a global health awareness campaign focusing on the importance of the kidneys and reducing the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide.

A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population.

The report on the impact of AIDS submitted to the Commission revealed that since the first AIDS case was diagnosed in 1981, more than 20 million people had died from the disease.

NEW HAVEN World Kidney Day, to be held on March 12, is part of a global health campaign meant to alert us to the impact of kidney disease. Sadly, there is little to celebrate.

Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries,

Also noting with concern the recent outbreak of avian influenza, recognizing its impact on human health as well as on the economy, and welcoming the Joint Ministerial Statement on the Current Poultry Disease Situation,

IVM promotes a policy and institutional framework in which local appropriate interventions (chemical and non chemical) are utilized synergistically and cost effectively through inter sectoral action to impact on the reduction of disease transmission.

A diagnosis of the disease can usually be made based on the signs and symptoms of the disease.

Kawasaki disease is predominantly a disease of young children, with 80 of patients younger than five years of age.

And right now, we know that the biggest disease of all is not a disease. It's corruption.

The global burden of disease is the collective disease burden produced by all diseases around the world.

Eighty percent of Americans have chronic disease, or 80 percent of age greater than 65 have two or more chronic disease, 140 million Americans have one or more chronic disease, and 80 percent of our 1.5, whatever, trillion expenditures are related to chronic disease.

The original Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease are considered two of the Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan.

But imagine the impact on a family if the parents can be employed and make sure that their children go to school, that they can buy the drugs to fight the disease themselves.

WASH and disease

Integrated disease control

How do we measure changes in behavior in a meaningful way that's going to help us with prevention of disease, early onset of disease, and tracking the progression of disease over a long period of time?

This is preventable disease. Waste of life.

The absence of disease is not health.

The Lingering Shadow of Mad Cow Disease

That he was dying of lung disease?

She died of heart disease in Helsinki.

The level of occupational disease is high.

Is Sadness a Disease?

Disease Prevention and Control

Coronary heart disease The approximate prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is 50 , with a prevalence of 37 in patients with premature coronary artery disease (age 45), particularly in women.

Treatment The ideal treatment for anemia of chronic disease is to treat the chronic disease successfully, but this is rarely possible.

Smallpox Smallpox was the first disease, and so far the only infectious disease of humans, to be eradicated by deliberate intervention.

The leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease is cardiovascular disease, regardless of whether there is progression to stage 5.

Cystic fibrosis is an example of a disease where you just have a bad ingredient and you have a disease, and we can actually make a direct correspondence between the ingredient and the disease.

But perhaps most interesting, to me anyway, and most important, is the idea of diagnosing a disease much earlier on in the progression, and then treating the disease to cure the disease instead of treating a symptom.

In developing a new, comprehensive follow up agenda, global leaders should recognize that, although the MDGs have enabled millions of people worldwide to escape illiteracy, disease, and hunger, their overall impact has been inadequate, particularly in fragile, conflict ridden countries.

In medicine, an acute disease is a disease with a rapid onset and or a short course.

Impact of poverty