According to the World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Statistics 2019, seven of the top 10 causes of death are non-communicable diseases, a figure that is an increase from 2000 when there were four non-communicable diseases. of the 10 leading causes of death. As for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, the report notes that they are now among the top 10 causes of death worldwide, ranked third in both America and Europe in 2019 and that 65% of deaths are women . Deaths from diabetes have increased by 70% worldwide between 2000 and 2019, with an 80% increase in the number of deaths from diabetes among men. The new estimates also highlight the lives that communicable diseases continue to take in low-income countries: six of the top 10 causes of death in low-income countries remain communicable diseases: malaria (sixth cause), tuberculosis (eighth). ) and HIV / AIDS (ninth).
Warns. The last years of the WHO point to a general slowdown or stagnation underway against infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.