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Health2 hours ago What are some global health issues?This article looks into a number of issues of global diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS/HIV, and the global response to them. For example, many people cannot afford medicines for these or other diseases, even though some are easily treatable.Global Health Healthy People 2020

1. Global Health Overview. Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011. This article looks at some global aspects of health issues, such as the impact of poverty and inequality, the nature of patent rules at the WTO, pharmaceutical company interests, as well as some global health initiatives and the changing nature of the global health problems being faced.
2. Health Care Around the World. Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011. This article provides a high level overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges.
3. Diseases—Ignored Global Killers. Last updated Saturday, October 02, 2010. This article looks into a number of issues of global diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS/HIV, and the global response to them.
4. AIDS around the world. Last updated Sunday, November 29, 2009. This article looks specifically at AIDS, and the global reaction to it. It seems to have only become a global interest when some rich countries were threatened by it.
5. Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical Research. Last updated Saturday, October 02, 2010. For a while now, pharmaceutical companies have been criticized about their priorties.
6. Health in the Media. Last updated Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Health information is often sensationalized in the media, with various promises of quick fixes and miracle cures.
7. Pharmaceutical Corporations and AIDS. Last updated Sunday, June 02, 2002. The AIDS crisis is one example that highlights the motives of some of the larger pharmaceutical corporations.
8. AIDS in Africa. Last updated Sunday, November 29, 2009. AIDS in Africa is said to be killing more people than conflicts. It causes social disruption as children become orphaned and it affects many already-struggling economies as workforces are reduced.
9. Tobacco. Last updated Sunday, January 05, 2014. It is well known that tobacco smoking kills millions. But it also exacerbates poverty, contributes to world hunger by diverting prime land away from food production, damages the environment and reduces economic productivity.
10. Obesity. Last updated Sunday, November 21, 2010. Obesity typically results from over-eating (especially an unhealthy diet) and lack of enough exercise. In our modern world with increasingly cheap, high calorie food (example, fast food — or junk food), prepared foods that are high in things like salt, sugars or fat, combined with our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, increasing urbanization and changing modes of transportation, it is no wonder that obesity has rapidly increased in the last few decades, around the world.

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