Chapter 12 Communicable Diseases

Table 12.0.T01: Key Links Between Communicable Diseases and the MDGs Data from United Nations. Millennium Development Goals. Available at: Accessed July 11, 2006.

Table 12.0.T02: Communicable Disease Definitions Data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reproductive Health Glossary. Availabe at: /Data_Stats/Glossary.htm. Accessed April 15, 2007; Dowdle, WR. The Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication. Available at: 7.htm. Accessed December 27, 2010.

Table 12.0.T03: Leading Causes of Death from Selected Communicable Diseases, 2010, by Number of Deaths in Thousands Data from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). (2013). GBD Heat map. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington. Retrieved December 29, 2014, from

Figure 12.0.F01: Deaths from Communicable Diseases, as Percent of Total Deaths, by World Bank Region and for High-Income Countries, 2010 Data from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD Compare. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, Accessed December 29, 2014.

Table 12.0.T04: Leading Causes of Death in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Broad Age Group, 2010, as Percentage of Total Deaths

Table 12.0.T05: Leading Causes of Death in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Sex, 2010, as Percentage of Total Deaths

Table 12.0.T06: Selected Examples of Emerging Infectious Diseases Data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Retrieved January 1, 2015, from /coronavirus/MERS/about/index.html.

Table 12.0.T07: Selected Examples of Reemerging Infectious Diseases Data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. International Notes Update: Human Plague—India, Available at: /mmwrhtml/ htm. Accessed August 31, World Health Organization. 1998—Cholera in Peru. Available at: /en/index.html. Accessed August 31, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Flare-up of Rift Valley Fever in the Horn of Africa. Available at: Accessed August 31, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monkeypox: Questions and Answers. Available at: Accessed August 31, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Locally Acquired Dengue—Key West, Florida, 2009–2010. Available at: Accessed August 31, World Health Organization. Ebola virus disease fact sheet. Available at: Accessed January 1, 2015.

Table 12.0.T08A: Selected Examples of Drug Resistance, by Disease

Table 12.0.T08B: Selected Examples of Drug Resistance, by Disease

Table 12.0.T09: Key Factors Contributing to the Emergence and Reemergence of Infectious Diseases Data from Smolinski MI, Hamburg MA, Lederberg J, eds. Microbial Threats to Health. Washington DC: The National Academies Press; 2004:4–7.

Table 12.0.T10: Selected Examples of the Economic Costs of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Data from World Health Organization. Infectious Diseases Across Borders: The International Health Regulations. Geneva: WHO; 2007.

Table 12.0.T11: Key Recommendations from the Center for Global Development Drug Resistance Working Group on Addressing Drug Resistance Data from Nugent R, Beck E, Beith A. The Race Against Drug Resistance. Washington DC: Center for Global Development; 2010.

Table 12.0.T12: HIV/AIDS Basic Facts: 2013 Data from World Health Organization. (2014). Global update on the health sector response to HIV. Retrieved January 7, 2015, from ; Prevalence estimate from World Health Organization. Global Health Observatory. Retrieved January 7, 2015, from ; Estimates for the proportion of adults and children receiving ART from UNAIDS and targets from UNAIDS. Fast track ending the AIDS epidemic by (2015).

Figure 12.0.F02: HIV Prevalence by Country, 2013 Data from UNAIDS. AIDSinfo: HIV prevalence among adults. Retrieved January 28, 2015, from ; The United States prevalence estimate from UNAIDS. United States: HIV and AIDS Estimates (2012). Retrieved January 28, 2015, from ; The Argentina estimate is from UNAIDS. Argentina: HIV and AIDS Estimates (2012). Retrieved January 28, 2015, from ; The France estimate is from UNAIDS. France: HIV and AIDS Estimates (2012). Retrieved January 28, 2015, from ; The Canada estimate is from UNAIDS. HIV and AIDS Estimates (2012). Retrieved January 29, 2015, from ; The Russian estimate is from World Health Organization. World Health Statistics. France: World Health Organization, The Chinese estimate is from UNAIDS. HIV in China: Facts & Figures.

Table 12.0.T13: TB Basic Facts: 2013 Data from WHO. Global tuberculosis report Retrieved January 6, 2015, from _report/gtbr14 _main_text.pdf?ua=1.

Table 12.0.T14: Malaria Basic Facts: 2013 Data from WHO Global Malaria Program. World malaria report Retrieved January 6, 2015, from /world_malaria_report_2014/wmr-2014-no- profiles.pdf.

Table 12.0.T15: Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases, Ranked by Prevalence Compiled by the author from WHO Factsheets on individual diseases. Retrieved July 17, 2015 from /diseases/en/.

Figure 12.0.F03: Countries with Five or More Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 Data from Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. Interactive Map, Countries with Five or More NTDS. Retrieved December 26, 2010, from ntds.

Table 12.0.T16: NTD Treatment for Selected Endemicity Scenarios

Figure 12.0.F04: Countries and Territories Where Chikungunya Cases Have Been Reported (as of July 1, 2014) *Does not include countries or territories where only imported cases have been documented. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014). Countries and territories wherechikungunya cases have been reported. Retrieved July 21, 2014, from