[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS : AFRICA: Whats Worse Than Ebola in West Africa? Almost Everything
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- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS :
AFRICA:
Whats Worse Than Ebola in West Africa? Almost Everything
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Whats Worse Than Ebola in West Africa? Almost Everything
EYE OFF THE BALL
10.23.14
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/23/
what-s-worse-than-ebola-in-west-africa-almost-everything.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/n362a59
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Ebolas getting the worlds attention right now, but long-standing programs
against diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS are being neglected and
thousands more may die in the meantime.
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ROME, Italy Long before Ebola was a household word and a global crisis,
West Africa was a daunting place. It was a corner of the world where you
could get caught in the crossfire of any number of local criminal gang
activities or civil wars if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But it was also a potential death trap for other reasons. It was a place
where Westerners didnt dare visit without a pharmaceutical arsenal of
anti-malarials, antibiotics and anti-diarrheal tablets. Now, thanks to
Ebola, they dont dare visit at all. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberiathe
West African nations now hardest hit with the Ebola epidemicalso had the
highest per capita rates of maternal mortality, HIV infections and malaria
deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. A shocking statistic among many is that, on
average, one person dies of malaria there every 30 seconds.
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Despite extreme poverty and internal strife, West Africa was also a place
where education, attention and global investment meant pockets of
progress, especially in Sierra Leone where the end of decades of civil
wars had recently given way to new hope. Maternal mortality rates were
improving because women living in extreme poverty sought medical attention
and were taught the benefits of prenatal nutrition. Across the region,
women also had many more opportunities for safe places to deliver babies,
or, short of that, trained midwives to help them deliver at home.
Childhood diseases like measles, polio and cholera were being beaten back
thanks to improved education and successful immunization programs. In
2010, the World Health Organization announced that 908,000 malaria deaths
had been averted in just a decade thanks to relatively simple measures
like mosquito nets and anti-malarial drugs.
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Now, the risk of losing that progress is all but certain. Patients are
terrified to seek treatment in hospitals and parents are refusing to
immunize their children out of fear they will be injected with the Ebola
virus instead. In countries like Liberia, where 7 percent of children
under five already die, fear could be fatal. Before Ebola, 97 percent of
children were immunized, according to an eye-opening report by NPR. Now
only 27 percent get their shots. Ebola is shutting down the healthcare
system, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft and current head of the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation told The Guardian on the sidelines of the
Sibos Banking conference in Boston last month.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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