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NCD Overlap

HE A LTH EDUC A TION H E A L T H 1 0 0 V E R S I O N 3 / What are infectious diseases?

"By contrast, health problems that cannot be transmitted between individuals, such as heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer, arthritis and depression, are known as non-communicable diseases (or NCDs). However, a few NCDs also have an infectious component, for example: in most cases of cervical cancer there is evidence of infection with a specific virus (the human papilloma virus, or HPV); hepatitis viruses cause liver disease and cancer of the liver; and a bacterium (Helicobacter pylori) causes stomach ulcers. These examples illustrate the point that there is some overlap between some infectious and non-communicable diseases."

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