Fight against COVID-19 but avoid disruption of services for other communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)

Rallying United Nations organizations in the fight against noncommunicable diseases.

Editorials 623 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), namely cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes , cause 63% of the world's total mortality. 1 Of the premature deaths from NCDs that occur in people between the ages of 30 and 70 years, 86% – i.e. approximately 12 million – occur in developing countries. 2 The cumulative economic losses to low-and middle-income c...

Difference between communicable and noncommunicable diseases pdf

Tuberculosis Comorbidity with Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases.

The 18th WHO Global Tuberculosis Annual Report indicates that there were an estimated 8.6 million incident cases of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, which included 2.9 million women and 530,000 children. TB caused 1.3 million deaths including 320,000 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected people; three-quarters of deaths occurred in Africa and Southeast Asia. With one-third of the world's popula...

Political priority in the global fight against non–communicable diseases

BACKGROUND The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic respiratory diseases - is surging globally. Yet despite the availability of cost-effective interventions, NCDs receive less than 3% of annual development assistance for health to low and middle income countries. The top donors in global health - including the Bill and Me...

Noncommunicable diseases: stepping up the fight