Every region of the world is affected, although the epidemic is growing most rapidly in Oceania and least rapidly in East Asia. Globally, the type 2 diabetes epidemic has been growing in lockstep with rising obesity levels.

There is a growing consensus that a response to the feminization of the epidemic needs to include

Recognizing that progress has been made in containing the HIV AIDS epidemic in a small but growing number of countries, but remaining deeply concerned by the overall expansion and feminization of the epidemic,

Recognizing that progress has been made in containing the HIV AIDS epidemic in a small but growing number of countries, but remaining deeply concerned by the overall expansion and feminization of the epidemic,

GAWH believes that with a proactive gender focused approach and the cooperation of the international community, the growing epidemic of diabetes can be quelled.

The growing feminization of the epidemic is a reflection of social, economic and legal inequities that increase the vulnerability of women and girls to infection.

Over the past 20 years, diabetes has been growing into a global epidemic both in developed and developing countries, with women being disproportionately at risk.

Flu epidemic.

This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

GAWH is calling on the United Nations, the World Health Organization, UNFPA and UNDP to recognize diabetes as an emerging epidemic and to develop forward looking policies that not only address this growing health crisis but also take on the epidemic of diabetes from a gender perspective.

The HIV epidemic peaked.

Almost started an epidemic.

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

The growing feminization of the epidemic makes it all the more necessary to establish initiatives and programmes specifically aimed at addressing the vulnerability of women and girls to the infection.

There's an epidemic in the region.

Growing and growing and growing and growing

However, it appears to be more difficult to reverse an existing epidemic of HIV among IDUs than preventing an epidemic.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

Shame is an epidemic in our culture.

First, Africa needs to overcome epidemic diseases.

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

The training focused on epidemiological surveillance methods, the case definition of epidemic prone diseases, the management of epidemic prone diseases, and formative supervision.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

l UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

24 UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

(i) Treatment of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases

The drug epidemic was spreading over the entire country.

Prevention, control and treatment of epidemic and other diseases

(d) Natural disasters drought and desertification HIV AIDS epidemic.

We had an epidemic of sick wives last night.

Dr. Kauffman calls it an epidemic of mass hysteria.

Does the board of health know about this epidemic?

A real epidemic of suicides hits industrialists and entrepreneurs

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

It had become trendy to speak about the obesity epidemic.

UNAIDS, Aids Epidemic Update (December 2004). http www.unaids.org wad2004 report_pdf.html

Tragedy could strike in the form of a deadly epidemic.

72 of those who suffer from epidemic parotitis were children.

A strange neurosis... evidently contagious an epidemic of mass hysteria.

During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help.

The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.

And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today.