Background: With advances in antiretroviral therapy, most deaths in people with HIV are
now attributable to noncommunicable illnesses, especially cardiovascular disease. We …

Executive summary Inspired by unprecedented improvements in human health and
development in recent decades, our world has embarked on a quest that only a generation …

Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding
how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease …

Background Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for
understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect …

This article contributes to the assessment of public policies to control the incidence of COVID-
19 in several ways.(1) It contains a brief historical and comparative overview of selected …

Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and
contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify …

Background Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality,
represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific …

Intermittent outbreaks of infectious diseases have had profound and lasting effects on
societies throughout history. Those events have powerfully shaped the economic, political …

Infection by RNA viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1, influenza, and
dengue virus (DENV) represent a major burden for human health worldwide. Although RNA …

HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence has
demonstrated that there is substantial local variation in the prevalence of HIV; however …