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Life expectancy rose in the Americas, PAHO report shows.(Pan American Health Organization)
2002 OCT 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Life expectancy at birth rose by 6 years throughout the Americas between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, mostly because a reduced risk of dying from communicable and cardiovascular diseases, according to a new report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
PAHO said mass immunizations throughout the region deserve much of the credit for fighting off communicable disease. Thanks to a widely used vaccine, measles is close to being eradicated in the Americas.
Countries in the region have also made progress against diseases for which there are no vaccines.
PAHO cites malaria as an example of this. Twenty-one countries in the Americas show active transmission of malaria. Implementing the Global Malaria Control Strategy and the Roll Back Malaria Initiative of 1998 reduced mortality from malaria from 8.3 deaths per 100,000 in 1994 to 1.7 deaths per 100,000 in 1999.
Improved treatment helped bring down rates of death from tuberculosis, which affected nearly 250,000 people in the Americas by 1999. Countries that implemented the DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) strategy had a cure rate of more than 85%, PAHO said.
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