Responding to Africa's burden of disease: accelerating progress.
Epidemiol Infect
; 151: e114, 2023 06 20.
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ABSTRACT
Although Africa is home to about 14% of the global population (1.14 billion people), it is growing three times faster than the global average [1]. The continent carries a high burden of disease, but there has been real progress in eradication, elimination, and control since 2015. Examples are the eradication of wild polio in 2020 [2] and the eradication or elimination of neglected tropical diseases, such as dracunculiasis in Kenya in 2018; Human African trypanosomiasis in Togo in 2022; and trachoma in Togo, Gambia, Ghana, and Malawi in 2022 [3]. New HIV infections reduced by 44% in 2021 compared to 2010 [4], and in 2021 the African region passed the 2020 milestone of the End TB Strategy, with a 22% reduction in new infections compared with 2015 [5].
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
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3_ND
Problema de salud:
1_doencas_nao_transmissiveis
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2_enfermedades_transmissibles
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3_dracunculiasis
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3_helminthiasis
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3_neglected_diseases
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3_trypanosomiasis
Asunto principal:
Poliomielitis
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Infecciones por VIH
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Dracunculiasis
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Epidemiol Infect
Asunto de la revista:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
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EPIDEMIOLOGIA
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Congo