Globalization of infectious diseases.

"(We) stand on the brink of a global crisis in infectious diseases. No country is safe from them. No country can any longer afford to ignore their threat." - World Health Organization.

Although the most of the immediate burden of infectious diseases is levied on those least able to afford it (the peoples of the developing world, Africa and India both suffer significant population lost each year from infectious and parasitic diseases. “Approximately 5 million people in Africa and 2 million people in India especially children) die each year because of these diseases. In Africa and India’s there are many infectious disease deaths account for a 70% percent of infectious disease deaths worldwide and 13% percent of all deaths worldwide.”

Infectious disease is a principal major public health issue for both developed and developing countries. For developing countries the human cost is immediate and severe in terms of premature deaths, diminished economic productivity, and orphaned children. For developed countries, infectious diseases are a threat on the horizon because of the problem of new and drug resistant infectious diseases migrating to the industrialized countries. The developed world’s stockpile of treatment drugs is being systematically depleted because of microbial evolution, and the increasing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs.

In Africa, the situation is dire. AIDS has already killed almost 14 million people, and the pandemic is still unfolding. Twenty-two million are currently living with HIV/ AIDS, and during the next decade, life expectancy at birth is expected to drop from 60 years old to about 40 years old and an estimated 40 million children will be orphaned. In some sub-Saharan Africa countries, up to 25% of the adult population has HIV/ AIDS”.

In conclusion, the World Health Organization said "We have a window of opportunity to make dramatic progress against ancient diseases, and to establish an early warning system to protect us from new and unexpected diseases. If we fail, increased drug resistance and the emergence of new bacteria and viruses threaten to make the control of infectious diseases both scientifically and economically unlikely in the future." real effort to improve health conditions, think that every day there is more poverty but health conditions favorable, it will help reduce the number of diseases.