Sentences with phrase «new infections»

The number of new infections in men and women between 25 and 49 years old has not changed.

The number of new infections in the overall population fell as well.

Although vaccines are available for both viruses, identification and segregation of infected cats form the cornerstone for preventing new infections.

The team estimates that this would reduce new infections from 2.5 million a year in 2009 to 1 million in 2015.

More new infections occur among young people ages 13 to 29 than any other age group — precisely the demographic that uses the Internet for social networking.

Because many cats with urinary tract infections have underlying diseases, your cat may require periodic evaluation of the urine to monitor for new infections.

The estimated within - school reproduction rate, or number of new infections caused by an infected person, was 3.3, comparable to school - based outbreaks of other influenza strains.

Today, the disease is found in 91 countries worldwide with about 200,000 new infections reported annually.

Among their considerations were how much money could be saved by each strategy, how many new infections and deaths would occur, and how many additional years of life would be lost.

In 1981, two research groups raised an alarm about a mysterious new infection.

The group called for efforts to promote the prudent use of drugs and research to develop new antibiotics and new infection fighting tools.

The city seeks to steadily lower its number of cases in line with the statewide goal of no more than 750 new infections annually by 2020.

In 2013, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were more than 3,000 new infections across the state.

That requires reducing the number of new infections below 750.

When the coverage lasts longer, there are more news items and a bigger impact on the public awareness of the epidemic, resulting in further behavior changes and fewer new infections.

An estimated 30 to 50 percent of new infections originate from recently infected individuals, who carry higher viral loads.

Most antibody tests turn negative about four months later as long as new infections do not occur.

We need to do something different to reach those people who are not being treated and to generally prevent new infections.

This is compounded by the continuing high rate of new infections, an estimated 1.8 million worldwide in 2016 alone.

The 90-90-90 program, forms part of UNAIDS global strategy of ensuring that by 2020, about 90 per cent of people would know their HIV status, while 90 per cent of those who are HIV positive would be on a sustained antiretroviral regime, with new infections reducing be 90 per cent.

Nearly 35 years after The New York Times reported the first cases of what would later be recognized as AIDS, New York State is poised to become the first jurisdiction in the world to end its HIV epidemic, even without a cure, by stopping new infections and ending AIDS deaths.

The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, has led the development and implementation of new infection control policies to reduce the risk of transmission, now adopted across the UK and elsewhere.

This carpet - bombing strategy has resulted in a 95 % reduction of new infections on some Comoran islands.

Salty water can also treat minor mouth infections and prevent new infections as well as infection spread.

In one of the first signs that HIV prevention efforts have begun to make a dent on a global scale, new infections appears to have dropped by 17 % over the past 8 years, according to a new report.

«Combination HIV prevention reduces new infections by 42 percent in Ugandan district: Study provides evidence for implementing this approach broadly.»

«What about pandemics and what about new infections that come along?

With most new infections in the UK coming from homosexual sex, medical authorities banned any man who had ever had sex with another man from donating blood.

Drugs designed to mimic the action of the powerful monkey TRIM5 could help block new infections.

Yet as more people live longer with the virus, HIV prevalence will increase even if new infection rates remain stable or drop, making it difficult to sort out the impact of prevention efforts.

The estimated new infections remain stable at 2.7 million people, but dropped from 3.5 million in 1996, the year the global epidemic appears to have peaked.

Ever since people in the Middle East started dying of a mysterious new infection last year, scientists have been trying to pinpoint the source of the outbreak.

«Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country's success in halting new infections.»

King was one of the co-chairs of a task force appointed by Cuomo several years ago to chart the state's push to reduce new infections from roughly 3,000 each year to as low as 750.

Injecting drug users also saw declining new infection rates because the virus had «saturated» that population, and because, in the wake of the booming HIV epidemic, many communities began needle and syringe exchange programs to make injection safer.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / VILevi About 1.7 million Americans each year acquire new infections during hospital stays — and hospital - acquired infections are one of the top five causes of death overall, killing 44,000 to 98,000 people in the U.S.

This reflects an appreciation that the war against the pandemic, despite enormous resources, is not yet succeeding, as new infections continue to increase.

To avoid new infections; make sure to wash your baby's toys, pacifiers, and bottles.

Initially Cuomo had proposed bringing the rate of new infections down to 750 a year by 2020.

The plan proposed by the task force assumes that by treating those living with HIV so they are no longer infectious and getting negative New Yorkers at risk on pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, the state can achieve the dramatic reduction in new infections sought.

«We are working toward making New York, once the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, a place where new infections are rare and those living with the disease can enjoy a full, normal, and healthy life.»

Furthermore, the number of new infections per number of people at risk was significantly higher in African countries than in non-African countries at 3.6 % and 0.3 %, respectively.

Another study of 201 transgender black and Latina women — a population that has one of the highest new infection rates in the country — in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, found that 86 % knew about PrEP.

Once the virus has exhausted its stock of easy victims (the weak or easily accessible), the rate of new infections begins to wane until the epidemic fades to a whisper.

The incidence of new infections recorded in the deferred group was roughly seven - times higher than the national estimate of 1 · 34 cases per 100 person - years reported for men who have sex with men attending sexual health clinics in the UK 2012.

Instead, he said, fighting likely undermines accurate data collection, leaving many new infections undetected.

The Brown University analysis reports that the rate of new infections rises significantly in the five years leading up to bloodshed.