Medical Vocab List 4 - Intro To The Global Fund

Question 1

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Answer 1

A virus that attacks the immune system. Transmitted from sexual intercourse, vertical transmission, and infected blood.

Question 2

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Answer 2

Chronic (long term) attacks the immune system.

Question 3

Maternal-to-child transmission (MTCT)

Answer 3

Active viruses in the mother and is transmitted to child from mother to child. (Vertical Transmission)

Question 4

Volunteer counseling and testing (VCT)

Answer 4

Testing before and after HIV to check status.

Question 5

Antiretroviral drug (ARV)

Answer 5

HIV medicine drug.

Question 6

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

Answer 6

Medicine taken to prevent HIV

Question 7

Stigma

Answer 7

A set of negative beliefs of a group of people have about something.

Question 8

Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY)

Answer 8

Loss of the equivalent of one year of full health.

Question 9

Tuberculosis (TB)

Answer 9

Bacterial disease that attacks the lungs. (Tends to mutate) *antibiotic resistant

Question 10

Directly observed treatment short course (DOTS)

Answer 10

Directly watch patients swallow pills for TB (take the medicine everyday)

Question 11

Antibiotic resistance

Answer 11

Not taking the medicine- fully/everyday

Question 12

Malaria

Answer 12

Disease from protozoa transmitted from infected mosquitos.

Question 13

Artemisinin combination therapy (ACT)

Answer 13

Using 1 or more drugs to kill of parasites/protozoa. *specifically made for Malaria

Question 14

Vector

Answer 14

A particle that carries nucleic acid into a cell.

Question 15

Neglected tropical disease (NTD)

Answer 15

Diseases that are prevalence in Tropical Areas/impoverished areas.

Question 16

World Health Organization (WHO)

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Answer 16

United Nations based organization that’s working to promote health for all humans & to protect the vulnerable populations.

Question 17

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

Answer 17

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) - non-medical thing that effects health. (Lifeystyle, water, living conditions~)

Global Burden of Disease (GBD) - (clinical) burden imposed by a specific condition/disease (not going to work during Covid)

Question 18

Incidence

Prevalence

Answer 18

Incidence - looking at rate of infections, (new cases)

Prevalence - how much the people has the condition. (New or old)

Question 19

Morbidity

Mortality

Answer 19

Morbidity - State of having the disease

Mortality - # of deaths that occur from condition

Question 20

Disability

Answer 20

Any condition that makes it difficult to perform task of daily living and to interact w/ the world