Diseases Without Borders

Citizens with disability fully enjoy the rights consigned in the Constitution and are subject to same obligations, with exception of the exercise or fulfillment of those for which they find themselves disabled to pursue.

6. Stresses that the proclamation of the Decade will stimulate the efforts of African countries and the international community not only to roll back malaria worldwide, in particular in Africa where the burden is heaviest, but also to prevent its spread to previously malaria free areas

There's no comparison at all.

We want something that gets that population right the way down so it can't get the disease transmission.

However, a disabled person who acquired the right to retraining or additional training is not entitled to a disability pension based upon a disability claimed after he she reached the age when no right to such training is guaranteed.

In case of disability caused by injury at work or professional related health condition, it is calculated by the percentage of base pension, regardless of pension seniority, and is more favourable than disability pension for an illness or injury not related to work.

Persons with a disability condition before 30 years of age, caused by an illness not related to work, acquire the right to disability insurance on condition that the disability insurance covers at least one third of their working time.

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Moreover, 38.6 per cent of countries have made cultural activities accessible to persons with disabilities and 60.5 per cent have consulted disabled persons organizations regarding measures and procedures to be taken to make cultural activities fully accessible to persons with disabilities.

(a) Persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from secondary education, on the basis of disability

And right now, we know that the biggest disease of all is not a disease. It's corruption.

Malaria is, however, a disease that is preventable, treatable and curable.

OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness.

Of the countries that responded, 48.2 per cent have raised public awareness of the cultural rights of persons with disabilities, while 50.0 per cent have raised awareness of those rights among persons with disabilities themselves. Some 49.1 per cent of responding countries provide persons with disabilities with accessible spaces to enable them to participate in cultural life, while 36.0 per cent provide them with accessible information about cultural activities.

(a) Providing information intended for the general public to persons with disabilities in accessible formats and technologies appropriate to different kinds of disabilities in a timely manner and without additional cost

The situation regarding chronic diseases like diabetes is very different. The epidemic happens silently over years or decades the danger is either not recognized or not considered avoidable and action is often seen as the responsibility of the individual (lifestyle modification) or health care system (pharmaceutical prescription), rather than the state.

Concerning information, the survey revealed that it is available in an accessible form to persons with disabilities in 36.0 per cent of the responding countries to their families in 35.1 per cent to disabled persons' organizations in 44.7 per cent and to society at large in 50.0 per cent.

If it was the case, we wouldn't have between 200 and 300 million cases of malaria every year, and we wouldn't have a million and a half deaths from malaria, and we wouldn't have a disease that was relatively unknown 50 years ago now suddenly turned into the largest mosquito borne virus threat that we have, and that's called dengue fever.

and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

No country can develop and protect its population from need, if it cannot take effective measures against the diseases devastating it, such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV AIDS and other contagious diseases, which pose a serious threat to the entire world, particularly the poor countries, and which represent obstacles to the realization of development goals.

This stems from the power of advocacy constituencies and the recognition that these diseases might threaten the developed world. As a result, these diseases receive a disproportionate amount of funding for research and control, while other infections kill, blind, deform, and disable many more the bottom billion who have little access to health care.

Concerned that millions of people suffer from discrimination resulting from physical and mental illness or handicap,

diagnose and cure illnesses for which more complex examinations by doctors are not required,

In fact, disease was a weapon that killed children quietly, in the privacy of their home.

The discussion must instead focus on the signs that some nuclear Powers might use nuclear weapons with a limited and controllable scope on people made defenceless by poverty, hunger and disease.

(c) To provide training for stakeholders on accessibility issues facing persons with disabilities

A disabled worker who acquired the right to training or additional training cannot have the right to a disability pension if he subsequently becomes too old for additional training.

The proportion of countries that consulted with disabled persons' organizations was 60.5 per cent, and 56.1 per cent of responding countries stated that they provided persons with disabilities with accessible information on medical services.

Causes of mental illness vary from one country to another and from one person to another.

In Africa where it is a major killer it is totally ignored.

Here are a number of things that we don't want illness, involuntary death, unnecessary suffering, cruelty, stunted growth, memory loss, ignorance, absence of creativity.

And the daughter's husband, he also was sick from his wife's exhaustion.

Both in the structure of morbidity and the structure of mortality for children, the main causes are infectious parasitic diseases, respiratory illnesses and conditions arising in the perinatal period.

And bed nets have an effect on the epidemic, but you're never going to make it extinct with bed nets.

Persons voluntarily insured on the basis of their agricultural activity, acquire the right to a disability pension if disability was caused by an injury at work or a professional related health condition, regardless of the length of pension seniority.

In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Some of these challenges are older than this Organization, such as poverty, ignorance, disease and armed conflict.

And in particular, I want to talk about the design of diarrhea.

And it's not just aging that causes arthritis.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

The Mental Health Homelessness Initiative created 3,600 units of supportive housing for persons with a mental illness who were homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Many are dying because of all those kind of pandemics, HIV, malaria, poverty, not going to school.

On June 13, 2005, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (Bill 118), came into force.

Children are hungry and suffer from illnesses that often would cost very little to treat.