Diseases Around the World
This virus caused a worldwide pandemic in 2020.
What is COVID-19?
The abbreviation WHO stands for this.
What is the World Health Organization?
This term describes preventing disease before it starts.
What is primary prevention?
The United Nations launched these 17 goals in 2015.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
The Amazon Rainforest is often called the "lungs" of this continent.
What is South America?
This mosquito-borne disease is common in tropical regions.
What is malaria?
This U.S. agency is known for disease prevention and control.
What is the CDC?
The number of deaths in a population per year is called this rate.
What is the mortality rate?
This 1948 document declared health as a basic human right.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This country has the largest population in the world as of 2025.
What is India?
This disease was eradicated through global vaccination efforts in 1980.
What is smallpox?
UNICEF primarily focuses on the health and rights of this group.
Who are children?
This word refers to the sudden outbreak of a disease in a specific area.
What is an epidemic?
This region was certified polio-free in 2020.
What is Africa?
Ebola outbreaks have mainly occurred on this continent.
What is Africa?
HIV attacks this system in the human body.
What is the immune system?
This global fund supports programs to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
What is The Global Fund?
Access to clean water and toilets falls under this broad global health goal.
What is sanitation (or SDG 6)?
The Alma-Ata Declaration in 1978 focused on this approach to health care.
What is primary health care?
The headquarters of WHO is in this European city.
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
This disease, spread by Aedes mosquitoes, causes fever, rash, and joint pain.
What is dengue?
The World Bank and WHO created this measure of population health combining years of life lost and years lived with disability.
What is DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Year)?
Vaccination is an example of this type of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
The first major international conference on climate and health took place in this year.
What is 2023?
This Caribbean nation was the first to gain independence from colonial rule in 1804.
What is Haiti?