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2007 Health Vulnerability Analysis Summary
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USAID recognizes that the health of E&E populations is critical to the successful transition to democracy and free-market economies across the region. Programming builds upon the region’s current epidemiological and economic realities, preserving a focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and reproductive health, while explicitly recognizing the damaging effect that non-communicable disease (NCD) is having on the region. In E&E, NCD leads to disability and death much sooner than in the U.S. or E.U. NCD and injury are responsible for over 90% of deaths among those between 15 and 59 years of age. Chronic losses from this most productive sub-population have severe demographic, social, economic, and security-related repercussions: economies suffer from lost productivity, families and communities suffer from absent heads of household, and militaries are challenged by dwindling enlistment.
In E&E countries, USAID seeks to address specific diseases and conditions with maximum efficiency through simultaneous and equal attention to building political commitment, implementing effective prevention tactics, and developing responsive primary health care and health systems.
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