It is recognized as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization.

Throughout the epidemic, citizens have largely obeyed government guidelines and followed public health prescriptions.

An AIDS epidemic, the worst in the Caribbean, was running unchecked. The health system had collapsed.

Three of the eight MDGs reductions in children s deaths, maternal deaths, and epidemic diseases focus directly on health.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV AIDS (UNAIDS) World Health Organization (WHO), Gender and HIV AIDS, Fact Sheet, Women, Health and Development Program, AIDS Epidemic Update, 2001.

After years of taking a passive, low profile approach to the epidemic, health officials have stepped up their anti HIV campaign.

ADI works globally to focus attention on the dementia epidemic and campaign for policy change from governments and the World Health Organization.

His exposé of the SARS epidemic cover up forced China's government to confront the disease more openly and aggressively, averting a public health catastrophe.

The local comprehensive health care systems with the highest rates of STDs are usually also the ones most affected by the HIV AIDS epidemic.

Survival environment, meaning the suppression of huge epidemic trends Basic security environment, characterized by epidemic trends suppression and accidents and undernutrition caused health conditions Effective results environment, i.e. appropriate nutrition, work stimulation and environment (healthy lifestyles) Comfortable environment, offering incentives and aesthetic amenity.

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

The HIV epidemic peaked.

Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization (the other two being cholera and yellow fever).

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

As nearly all the health structures in the country have been mobilized to fight the epidemic, to the detriment of other health related needs, about 1.7 million is required to strengthen surveillance, treatment, public information and communication.

These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair.

The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.

Indeed, most Latin American countries far exceed the threshold of 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants that the World Health Organization uses to define an epidemic level of violence.

Article 12.2 requires parties to take specific steps to improve the health of their citizens, including reducing infant mortality and improving child health, improving environmental and workplace health, preventing, controlling and treating epidemic diseases, and creating conditions to ensure equal and timely access to medical services for all.

74 bis. (a) Strengthening the health management and financing systems of small island developing States to enable them to arrest the HIV AIDS epidemic, to reduce the incidence of malaria, dengue and non communicable diseases and to promote mental health agreed

A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic.

But global health emergencies like the current Ebola epidemic highlight the folly of these fiscal priorities. Though we may not lean too heavily on our health infrastructure typically, its importance becomes all too apparent when disease and death come knocking at our door.

So while the epidemic has ... been declared finished, Philips says, of course it's not only Ebola in terms of health problems . ... And so then it all depends on how do you define risk in a broader way and health risk, in particular.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

Clearly, the epidemic will continue to spread.

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

But it must still operate in the context of a closed society, where government control over the media limits the flow of information necessary to deal with any public health epidemic.

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Unstable malaria areas may therefore be prone to epidemic outbreaks, largely as a result of climatic factors, and because low levels of immunity affect people of all ages, with severe health consequences.

Doctor Sami Bakir is working on the epidemic.

It provides that anyone who violates regulations designed to prevent the introduction of epidemic or contagious diseases capable of harming human or animal health shall be sentenced to 3 to 34 months' imprisonment.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.

In 1650, a plague epidemic killed half its population.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

l UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair. Yet the window of opportunity closes quickly.

On May 1, the hospital director reported to the local public health office the discovery of an epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system , marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

UNFPA has mobilized members of the Programme Coordinating Board and other organizations of the United Nations system around the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV AIDS and the feminization of the epidemic.

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

The resulting epizootic (animal epidemic) affected more than 280,000 cows.

Hygienic conditions were bad, including an epidemic of head lice.

Tragedy could strike in the form of a deadly epidemic.

Between November 1866 and July 1867, Caxias organized a health corps (to give aid to the endless number of injured soldiers and to fight the epidemic of cholera) and a system of supply of the troops.

In Africa, UNFPA and its partners established a youth network on population and development, which emphasizes sexual and reproductive health and HIV AIDS and the scaling up of responses to the epidemic through an integrated, multisectoral approach.