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Michael Ejercito
Sep 8, 2021, 10:29:41 AM9/8/21
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The Great Reboot
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest
countries, fund says
By Emma Farge
2 minute read
A healthcare worker sets up a mobile clinic in Gugulethu township near
Cape Town, South Africa, March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
People walk in a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis
Mascarenhas
People wearing protective face masks stand in a queue to receive food
aid amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at
the Itireleng informal settlement, near Laudium suburb in Pretoria,
South Africa, May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
1/3
People walk in a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis
Mascarenhas
GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people will die of
tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems
in poor countries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a global aid fund said.
In a few of the world's poorest countries, excess deaths from AIDS and
tuberculosis (TB) could even exceed those from the coronavirus itself,
said the head of the Geneva-based aid body, known as the Global Fund.
The Fund's annual report for 2020, released on Wednesday, showed that
the number of people treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis in
countries where it operates fell by 19%. A decline of 11% was reported
in HIV prevention programmes and services.
"Essentially, about a million people less were treated for TB in 2020
than in 2019 and I'm afraid that will inevitably mean that hundreds of
thousands of people will die," Executive Director Peter Sands told Reuters.
While precise death tolls are as yet unknown, Sands said that for some
poor countries, such as parts of the Sahel region in Africa, excess
deaths from the setback in the fight against diseases such as TB or AIDS
might prove higher than from COVID-19 itself.
The Geneva-based Global Fund is an alliance of governments, civil
society and private sector partners investing more than $4 billion per
year to fight tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. The United States is its
top donor.
Sands said services were affected by COVID-19 lockdowns while clinics,
staff and diagnostics normally used for TB were instead deployed for
COVID-19 in countries such as India and across Africa. He added that he
expected further disruptions this year due to the Delta variant.
He said the decline in treatment for other diseases "underscores the
need to look at the total impact of COVID-19 and measure success in
combating it not just by the reduction in deaths due to COVID-19 itself
but to the knock on impact".
Malaria proved to be an exception to the trend in 2020, and prevention
activities remained stable or increased compared to 2019, the Global
Fund said.
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The Great Reboot
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest
countries, fund says
By Emma Farge
2 minute read
A healthcare worker sets up a mobile clinic in Gugulethu township near
Cape Town, South Africa, March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
People walk in a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis
Mascarenhas
People wearing protective face masks stand in a queue to receive food
aid amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at
the Itireleng informal settlement, near Laudium suburb in Pretoria,
South Africa, May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
1/3
People walk in a crowded market amidst the spread of the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai, India, September 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis
Mascarenhas
GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people will die of
tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems
in poor countries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a global aid fund said.
In a few of the world's poorest countries, excess deaths from AIDS and
tuberculosis (TB) could even exceed those from the coronavirus itself,
said the head of the Geneva-based aid body, known as the Global Fund.
The Fund's annual report for 2020, released on Wednesday, showed that
the number of people treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis in
countries where it operates fell by 19%. A decline of 11% was reported
in HIV prevention programmes and services.
"Essentially, about a million people less were treated for TB in 2020
than in 2019 and I'm afraid that will inevitably mean that hundreds of
thousands of people will die," Executive Director Peter Sands told Reuters.
While precise death tolls are as yet unknown, Sands said that for some
poor countries, such as parts of the Sahel region in Africa, excess
deaths from the setback in the fight against diseases such as TB or AIDS
might prove higher than from COVID-19 itself.
The Geneva-based Global Fund is an alliance of governments, civil
society and private sector partners investing more than $4 billion per
year to fight tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. The United States is its
top donor.
Sands said services were affected by COVID-19 lockdowns while clinics,
staff and diagnostics normally used for TB were instead deployed for
COVID-19 in countries such as India and across Africa. He added that he
expected further disruptions this year due to the Delta variant.
He said the decline in treatment for other diseases "underscores the
need to look at the total impact of COVID-19 and measure success in
combating it not just by the reduction in deaths due to COVID-19 itself
but to the knock on impact".
Malaria proved to be an exception to the trend in 2020, and prevention
activities remained stable or increased compared to 2019, the Global
Fund said.
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HeartDoc Andrew
Sep 8, 2021, 11:26:10 AM9/8/21
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the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
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Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
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which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Sep 9, 2021, 10:20:13 AM9/9/21
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Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Sep 9, 2021, 10:53:36 AM9/9/21
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MichaelE wrote:
> I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
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