World’s Tropical Disease Patients Rises

A recent report from the WHO estimates that one billion poor people in the world who suffer from neglected tropical diseases like dengue fever, rabies and leprosy. The disease is concentrated in remote rural areas and urban slums, although most have tried to be destroyed in other parts of the world. WHO said substantially to these figures can be reduced through the help of drug donations from the pharmaceutical industry.
WHO identified 17 diseases and disease groups present in 149 countries, one third of the 2.7 billion people live on less than U.S. $ 2/day.
A total of 30 countries have six or more diseases. Overall, more than a third of the 2.7 billion people live on less than U.S. $ 2/day affected these diseases.
“These diseases cause great suffering but hidden, and often killed. But not in proportion to the number of deaths caused by the germs of HIV / AIDS or malaria,” said WHO Director General Margaret Chan.
Two of the disease onchocerciasis, known as the driver blindness and trachoma (a bacterial infection of the eye), causing blindness. Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) causes the victim disability, impede productivity and social interaction. Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, weakens the patient before the killing. And rabies is fatal when untreated.
Novartis has renewed its commitment to donate drugs to treat leprosy. Meanwhile, GlaxoSmithKline said it would expand the donation of drugs to treat worm infections.
Meanwhile, Sanofi-Aventis will continue to help eliminate sleeping sickness and other diseases. “Also active in the struggle against this disease is Bayer, Eisai, and Johnson & Johnson,” the WHO said.
“A lot of neglected tropical diseases lead to destruction and disability, leading to social stigma and discrimination, reducing the prospect of marriage and increase the likelihood to be left in women and girls,” the report said.
Diseases such as dengue fever did not get the international response because the victim did not have a voice in politics. This disease also tend not to spread to a distant country, and rarely affects tourists, the report said.
Among the neglected tropical disease control strategies such as expanding preventive chemotherapy, which means treating the whole population where the disease was identified with drugs that can overcome several illnesses at once.
The report also recommends doing a better job in identifying the disease, improving sanitation and controlling insects and animals that could spread the disease into the human population.
Chan said the campaign aims to create a ‘deliberate effort’ to eradicate the disease as a means of alleviating poverty, rather than waiting for them to ‘disappear’ in stages as the developing countries. read also: Artificial Blood Processing Machine Has Successfully In Create, Tips Improve Sexual Passion And Reduce Stress.