New HIV infections dropped by almost one-third from the epidemic peak; TB deaths declined by 3.7% between 2000 and 2013; child deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have dropped 31.5% in the past decade. Despite major progress, the quality of programs to treat HIV varies widely.
News
July 21, 2014
News Release
HIV/AIDS deaths dropped from a peak of more than 40,000 in 1995 to around 10,000 in 2013, and TB deaths declined at a rate of 3.7% since 2000. New TB cases are declining faster than the global average, but new HIV/AIDS cases are increasing.
May 28, 2014
News Release
Today, 2.1 billion people – nearly 30% of the world’s population – are either obese or overweight, according to a new, first-of-its kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries. The rise in global obesity rates over the last three decades has been substantial and widespread, presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed and the developing world.
Events
July 22, 2014
Symposium
IHME Director Christopher Murray will discuss recent trends in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria rates, which are detailed in a forthcoming Global Burden of Disease 2013 paper, at AIDS 2014, the 20th
May 27, 2014
Conference
IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray will give the talk “Metrics for healthy and sustainable food systems” at the first annual EAT Stockholm Food Forum.
May 19, 2014
Workshop
IHMEconducted a GBD Technical Training Workshop May 19-30, 2014, in Crete, Greece. This workshop provided opportunities for hands-on work using the methods, tools, data, and visualizations of GBD 2013, as well as a forum for discussing the implications of results and future work of the GBD study.