Another zoonosis, rabies, killed 50,000 people in 2005, mainly from dog bites in Africa and Asia despite availability of an effective vaccine, according to the World Health Organization.
A18 SCIENCE/HEALTH An Overlooked Artery Disease Peripheral arterial disease, a narrowing of arteries in the legs and sometimes the arms that is strongly linked to heart attacks and strokes, is underdiagnosed and undertreated despite availability of a simple test for detecting it, a study said.
Despite availability of neuroepidemiological data, urban rural differences on neurological diseases have almost never been considered.
About 1·3 million people died of tuberculosis in 2012, despite availability of effective drug treatment.
Despite availability of screening, cervical cancer is still the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality [16].
This is true despite availability of four randomized trials comparing the efficacy of surgical and nonsurgical treatments.
Other reasons raised included the uneven land, uneconomic land area, problems in raising funds despite availability of bank loans, and multiple ownership of the land.
Despite availability of those funding programs in South Africa, there was a low awareness of funding programs especially government support schemes (DTI, 2010).
Tuberculosis (TB) remains among the most deadly health threats to humankind despite availability of several potent antibiotics and a vaccine, bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG).
Despite availability of three effective vaccines in market, development of HPV prophylactic vaccines is still pursued due to affordability issues and type-restricted protection of the marketed vaccines.
Despite availability of effective therapies, peptic ulcer disease (PUD) remains a major global disease, resulting from a combination of persistent Helicobacter pylori infection and widespread use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
