Some examples of what we see on Project Balaram  


Malaria:
    Malaria is one of the world's most prevalent diseases.  Current estimates are over 500 million cases a year, and 3 million deaths.  Each day 2,200 people die of malaria.  Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds.  Today malaria kills more people than it did 30 years ago. Most malaria deaths are preventable.

Dengue Fever:
Endemic in 100 countries with 50 million cases of dengue fever each year.

Soil Transmitted helminthiasis:
An estimated 2 billion people are infected with STH's.

Typhoid:
Current estimates are 21 million cases a year and 600,000 deaths.  Most are preventable.

TB:
TB is the second leading killer of adults in the world, with 3 million deaths a year.

Leishmaniasis:
Cutaneous 1.5 million new cases a year.  Visceral 500,000 new cases a year.

 

Amebiasis
Bacterial infections
Birth accidents
Brucellosis
Burns
Cancer
Chicken Pox
Chikungunya
Dengue Fever
Diabetes
Duchenne MD
Fungal infections
Gastric problems
Giardiasis
Goiters
HFMD
Hypospadias
Elephantiasis
Hepatitis A,B,C,E
Japanese B encephalitis
Kidney problems
Leprosy
MAP
Measles
Meningitis bacterial and viral
Mumps
Neurocystisarcosis
Onchocerciasis
Parasites
PID
Portal Hypertension
Pre mature births
Polio
Rabies
Reactions due to spurious medicine
Respiratory Problems
Scabies
Spina bifida
STD's
Tetanus
Trachoma
Toxocariasis
UTI