This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

Stigmatization is so prevalent it has been referred to as the inevitable third epidemic , occurring after the silent epidemic of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

The HIV epidemic peaked.

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic

Shame is an epidemic in our culture.

This is the most devastating epidemic of our time.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

l UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

It had become trendy to speak about the obesity epidemic.

UNAIDS, Aids Epidemic Update (December 2004). http www.unaids.org wad2004 report_pdf.html

Tragedy could strike in the form of a deadly epidemic.

During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help.

The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.

And that is reflected in the epidemic that we have today.

There is no such thing as an HIV epidemic in Africa.

It's similar to the pellagra epidemic in Mississippi in the '30s.

The HIV AIDS epidemic alone has killed over 20 million people.

Southern Africa was the epicentre of the global HIV AIDS epidemic.

But what I'd like to show you today is a means by which we might get not just rapid warning about an epidemic, but also actually early detection of an epidemic.

(a) Providing stronger and more visible leadership in response to the epidemic

And that was the genesis of the entire epidemic in the US.

The global road safety crisis is a modern epidemic of extraordinary proportions.

Feminization of the epidemic is occurring throughout Latin America and the Caribbean,

The Executive Director reported that the impact of the epidemic was huge.

(p) To continue to take action to fight the HIV AIDS epidemic

Recognizing that progress has been made in containing the HIV AIDS epidemic in a small but growing number of countries, but remaining deeply concerned by the overall expansion and feminization of the epidemic,

Large families still, and the HIV epidemic brought down the countries like this.

But this talk is going to be about understanding facts about the epidemic.

People aren't changing their behavior enough to decrease the growth in the epidemic.

The epidemic in the friends group has shifted to the left, over here.

In the U.K. we have an epidemic of facial injuries among young people.

In March 2005 an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever was declared in Angola.

But equally, as the President said, we have not turned back the epidemic.

Young women are fast becoming the new face of the HIV AIDS epidemic.

In some parts of the world, gender based violence has reached near epidemic proportions.

Some of those countries have managed to arrest the epidemic at an early stage.

Every region of the world is affected, although the epidemic is growing most rapidly in Oceania and least rapidly in East Asia. Globally, the type 2 diabetes epidemic has been growing in lockstep with rising obesity levels.

Furthermore, for all the countries that are highly affected by the HIV AIDS epidemic, the transition to lower mortality has been interrupted, and the epidemic is having major detrimental effects on both population trends and socio economic development.

(k) To continue to take action to fight the HIV AIDS epidemic, tuberculosis and malaria

What that means is we have the tools to break the back of this epidemic.

What we really want is to arrive right here, so we can stop the epidemic.