Global Health Initiatives Flashcards
mobilizes and invests more than 4 billion dollars a year to support
programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries. The money comes from 92% from donor government and 8% from
the private sector and foundations. The budget is spent to support programs that fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
The Global Fund
It is the first treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization that seeks to control tobacco consumption. It is designated to serve as the lead agency tasked to direct and coordinate with all member nations regarding leadership, supervision, technical support, and education on matters about health.
WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC)
It is a resolution on public health problems caused by the harmful use of alcohol approved by the World Health Assembly year 2005 (WHA 58.26); thus, recognizing that alcohol has a worldwide impact and that strategies exist to reduce such an impact. It establishes norms and creates a framework to support both domestic action and international cooperation on alcohol consumption. It reduces harmful use of alcohol through effective policy measures and by providing relevant infrastractures for tobacco control in target countries in the whole world.
WHO’s Global Strategy to Reduce
the Harmful Use of Alcohol
It is anchored on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to the principles of universality, equality and leaving no one behind. It helps countries in achieving sustainable development by eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions. It accelerates structural transformations for sustainable development and building
resilience to crises and shocks
UNDP Strategic Plan on
Sustainable Development Goals
It promotes “immunization for all.” Its mission is to save the lives of people and protect them by increasing access to immunization. It is an international coalition of partners. This includes national governments, international organizations such as United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), WHO, and World Bank; philanthropic institutions, private sectors, and research and public health institutions.
Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization
GAVI
This has set five (5) strategic objectives:
Improve access to sustainable immunization
services.
- Expand the use of all existing safe and cost-
effective vaccines. - Accelerate research and development efforts on
vaccines and related products needed by
developing countries. - Accelerate the development and introduction of
new vaccines. - Make immunization coverage an integral part of
design and assessment of international
development efforts, including deep debt relief.
AIDS-related deaths are declining by 45% from 1.9 million to 1.1 million in 2015. 18.9 million people received antiretroviral therapy for HIV. 719,000 HIV-positive mothers received medicine to keep them alive and prevent transmitting HIV to their babies.
Deaths from TB declined by 30% between 2000 and 2015.
Deaths from malaria declined by 30% between 2000 and 2015. 131 million mosquito nets distributed to protect families from malaria.
Global Fund
Nearly 22 million future premature smoking-attributable
deaths were averted because of strong implementation
of demandreduction measures adopted by countries
between 2007 and 2014.
Scotland saw a 13% annual decrease in childhood
asthma admissions after the introduction of smoke free
law.
The budget for health in the Philippines has increased,
particularly for universal health care after raising the tax
imposed to cigarette through the Sin Tax Law in 2013.
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The United States saw a 16% median decline in motor vehicle
crashes. Brazil reduced the opening hours of bars from 24 hours a
day to closure at 11 pm was associated with a 44% drop in
homicides.
The Russian Federation implemented alcohol control measures in
2003. By 2016, recorded consumption of alcohol had fallen by
40%. Over the same period all-cause mortality dropped by 39%
in men and 36% in women, with the sharpest decline in causes of
death linked to alcohol consumption.
In 2019, the WHO European region is the only region that has a
significant reduction on alcohol per capita consumption which
surpassed a 10% relative reduction in comparison with 2010.
WHO’s Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol
Global poverty has fallen from 35 per cent in 1990 to under
10 per cent in 2016, reducing the number of poor people in
the world by over 1 billion.
Panama achieved high-income status in 2018, leading to a
decline in core regular resources from UNDP
Malaysia’s commitment to womens rights and gender equality has developed over time in both the domestic and international arenas. The country effectively responded to human development challenges and reduced inequalities with the help of UNDP.
UNDP Strategic Plan on SDG
Since 2016, It has immunized nearly 200 million children and are ahead of reaching 300 million children by 2020. The breadth of protection has increased, by 10 percentage points in the last year alone and 21 percentage points since the beginning of the strategy period.
Since its inception in 2000, it supported immunization programmed in Africa have helped avert 7.5 million deaths.
Over 250 million children were immunized with pentavalent vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Hep B and Hib) since 2000.
Since inception, nearly 130 million children were immunized with pneumococcal vaccine against the leading cause of pneumonia.
Nearly 78 million children were immunized since 2000 with rotavirus vaccine against the leading cause of severe diarrhea.
Over 3.1 million girls in Africa have been immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the main cause of cervical cancer.
GAVI
