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A recent study published in
The Lancet medical journal found that women living with HIV made up an estimated 63.4% of new cervical cancer cases in South Africa in 2018 – a dramatically higher percentage than the global level of around 6%. The study also found that women living with HIV on average have a sixfold higher risk of developing cervical cancer than women who are not living with HIV.
“In absolute terms,” the authors wrote, “most women with cervical cancer living with HIV were from South Africa.”
Of the estimated 33,000 new cases of cervical cancer in women living with HIV in 2018, around 8,200 were in South Africa. In total, including women who are not living with HIV, it is estimated there were around 570,000 new cervical cancer cases worldwide in 2018.
deflation in the great depression, and we came close in 2008. but we avoided it. but both of those events were caused by financial system instability not interest rates and inflation. so i do think now is the time to be hyperfocused on financial stability and preparing the financial system for the next downturn. it s going to happen in the next couple of years. there s no doubt in my mind about that. and we should be increasing bank capital buffers, leverage loans. regulators had tightened on that lending, a high risk type of corporate lending, and there was some loosening. and i think those are the kind of steps the feds should be more fec sed on right now because we will be having a recession in the next couple of years. and it ll be fine. we ll come back out of it as we usually have if our financial feathers dent get ruffled. we have to make sure we have the stability in place to handle them. sheila, thank you for joining us. former chair of the fdic.