Sentences with phrase «worldwide scourge»

We really could do something worthwhile about this worldwide scourge....

I didn't consciously set out to write a film that would spark wider conversations about the ethics of adoption or the worldwide scourge of child sex trafficking.

«Artemisinin is currently the most important medicine against malaria, a worldwide scourge,» says Raven.

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The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

The scourge of Ebola, with its close to 10,000 fatalities in 2014, pales in comparison with the 1.2 million who died of HIV / AIDS worldwide during the same year, of whom close to 800,000 were in Africa.

Tremendous strides have been made in eradicating infectious disease scourges such as smallpox and polio that once killed and crippled millions; still, about 15 million deaths — or about one third of all deaths annually — result from infectious diseases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization

The nonprofit IVI grew out of the Children's Vaccine Initiative, a 1992 effort by several international organizations to stem the scourge of childhood diseases worldwide.

Long the scourge of Western nations, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases like asthma now kill more people worldwide than all other causes combined.

Under Dr. Greene's direction, virology and immunology research at Gladstone takes a multidisciplinary approach to fighting HIV / AIDS — which remains a global scourge, with more than 30 million people worldwide living with HIV.

Finally the oil palm scourge threatening primary rainforests and life giving ecosystems worldwide faces a setback as local protests are again successfully supported internationally by Rainforest Rescue and others.