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Epidemics HA-19-7-05

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens to compromise the economic, social, and democratic gains made in Africa in recent decades, and $15 billion in new funds made by the US under the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000 22USC(76)IIA§6831 were matched by other nations for an estimated $25 billion. The Secretary-General of the UN has however asked for another $8-10 billion a year to fight AIDS.

This Article proposes to increase US contributions by $100 million to keep critical AIDS, TB and malaria programs running around the world. The amendment, proposed by Senators Rick Santorum, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, would bring total U.S. funding for an important program called the  Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to $600 million - a one third share of what's needed to keep existing programs on the ground running, as estimated by ONE.

Without our help, the Global Fund may have to cut programs that have already begun to have a real impact, delivering prevention, care and treatment to millions of people around the world. Remember, AIDS kills 8,500 people every day, TB kills 5,000 and malaria kills over 3,000 in Africa alone - every day. Together, we can help fight back against these killer diseases. We also have an unprecedented opportunity to wipe poliomyelitus from the world through the immunization of affected countries as has been done in the Americas however the program needs $250 million through 2006.

This Article has been written for the appendix of the Hospitals & Asylums’ Public Health Department (PHD) amendments to Chapter 9 Hospitalization of Mentally Ill Nationals Returned from Foreign Countries §321-329 that should be done by the end of July 2005.

15 Leading Causes of Death World Wide

Rank	0-4 years	5-14 years	15-44 years	45-59 years	60 years	All ages
1	Perinatal conditions 2,155,000	Acute lower respiratory infections 213,429	HIV/AIDS 1,629,726	Ischaemic heart disease 887,146	Ischaemic heart disease 6,239,562	Ischaemic heart disease 7,375,408
2	Acute lower respiratory infections 1,850,412	Malaria 209,109	Road traffic injuries 600,312	Cerebrovascular disease 600,854	Cerebrovascular disease 4,247,080	Cerebrovascular disease 5,106,125
3	Diarrhoeal diseases 1,814,158	Road traffic injuries 161,956	Interpersonal violence 509,844	Tuberculosis 407,737	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 1,974,652	Acute lower respiratory infections 3,452,178
4	Measles 887,671	Drowning 157,573	Self-inflicted injuries 508,621	Trachea/bronchus /lung cancers 305,982	Acute lower respiratory infections 1,184,698	HIV/AIDS 2,285,229
5	Malaria 793,368	Diarrhoeal diseases 133,883	Tuberculosis 427,314	Cirrhosis of the liver 264,117	Trachea/bronchus/ lung cancers 889,873	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2,249,252
6	Congenital abnormalities 404,849	War injuries 57,285	War injuries 372,935	HIV/AIDS 214,571	Tuberculosis 570,513	Diarrhoeal diseases 2,219,032
7	HIV/AIDS 349,885	Nephritis/nephrosis 44,640	Ischaemic heart disease 244,556	Liver cancers 205,394	Stomach cancers 561,527	Perinatal conditions 2,155,000
8	Pertussis 345,771	Congenital abnormalities 43,056	Cerebrovascular disease 195,983	Stomach cancers 205,212	Diabetes mellitus 426,964	Tuberculosis 1,498,061
9	Tetanus 302,668	Inflammatory cardiac disease 40,802	Cirrhosis of the liver 142,445	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 203,192	Colon/rectum cancer 424,463	Trachea/bronchus/ lung cancers 1,244,407
10	Protein−energy malnutrition 214,717	HIV/AIDS 39,042	Drowning 141,922	Self-inflicted injuries 178,478	Cirrhosis of the liver 355,615	Road traffic injuries 1,170,694
11	Drowning 125,301	Fires 38,968	Fires 122,666	Road traffic injuries 172,312	Nephritis/nephrosis 307,832	Malaria 1,110,293
12	STDs excluding HIV 118,178	Cerebrovascular disease 38,349	Maternal haemorrhage 116,771	Breast cancers 132,238	Oesophaguscancers 296,550	Self-inflicted injuries 947,697
13	War injuries 103,323	Tuberculosis 38,093	Acute lower respiratory infections 115,100	Oesophagus cancers 117,352	Liver cancers 295,756	Measles 887,671
14	Road traffic injuries 82,429	Interpersonal violence 34,938	Rheumatic heart disease 104,635	Diabetes mellitus 104,855	Inflammatory cardiac disease 268,545	Stomach cancers 822,069
15	Meningitis 60,198	Leukaemia 34,503	Liver cancers 103,131	Inflamatory cardiac disease 97,511	Self-inflicted injuries 227,724	Cirrhosis of the liver 774,563

Dr. Kung. World Health Organization. Table 1. Leading Causes of Death, Both Sexes, 1998. WHO/HSC/PVI/99.11

From the CIA World Fact Book it can be calculated that 56,597,030 people died around the world in 2004

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