Alcohol Kills More Than AIDS

Deaths due to alcohol far more than expected deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis or violence. World Health Organization (WHO) revealed four percent alcohol cause of death worldwide.

Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with 60 kinds of diseases, including liver cirrhosis, epilepsy, poisoning, traffic accidents and acts of violence. Some cancers are also triggered by alcohol, such as colorectal cancer, breast, liver and throat.

In recent years an increase in alcohol consumption in a global economy triggered by the increase in countries with dense population such as in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa.

WHO in its report Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health says each year 2.5 million people died from various things that caused by alcohol. "Consumption of alcohol, especially fatal to a group of young people and alcohol became the highest cause of death in men aged 15-59 years," WHO said in its report.

Addiction to alcohol as a trigger dangerous behavior are found in Brazil, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine and continues to increase in many countries.

"Worldwide, about 11 percent of alcoholics at least every week, drank alcohol excessively and do this more men than women with a ratio of four to one," wrote the WHO.

Health ministers from 193 WHO member states have expressed their consent to make policies to reduce alcohol abuse by raising taxes and limiting marketing of alcoholic beverages.

Nevertheless, traditional alcoholic beverages or homemade is a product widely consumed alcoholic from poor countries making it difficult to control. Most of the drinks are even toxic and cause casualties.