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A plan signed by George W. Bush in 2003 that committed $15 billion over five years to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic
What is What is PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
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Disease that is not infectious, such as heart attack, stroke, cancer and diabetes
What is Non communicable disease
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The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation primarily supports these two Asian countries
What is China and India
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The first epidemic that was often associated and treated with supernatural forces
What is The Black Death
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Founder of Partners in Health
What is Paul Farmer Side note: If you haven’t already—read Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder and you will fall in love with this man
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The four-pillar community based care program established in Haiti by Partners in Health in 2000
What is The HIV Equity Initiative The key to the HIV Equity Initiative's success lies in its its comprehensive approach: nutritional and social support are provided along with life-saving medicines and treatment is closely linked to prevention and to other health services. Community health workers provide the "missing infrastructure" that is often cited as an obstacle to AIDS care in poor countries. This community-based approach works so well that during the 2004 coup d'état in Haiti not a single PIH AIDS patient missed a dose of medication.
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An international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs.
What is the World Bank
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The coordinating and directing authority for health within the United Nations
What is World Health Organization (WHO) It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
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This disease kills 5,000 people every day and it is a curable disease with drugs in existence for over 50 years
What is Tuberculosis
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The scientist who studied the cholera outbreak in 1854 on Broad Street in London
What is John Snow **Milestone event in public health because of Snow’s discovery that this disease was spreading through contaminated water
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A program launched by UNICEF to promote growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy (ORT), breast-feeding and immunizations in the Third World in 1980
What is the Child Survival Revolution Established by John Grant at the UN Conference
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A term coined in 1960 that is based on the systemic ways in which a given social structure or social institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs
What is structural violence Institutionalized elitism, ethnocentrism, classism, racism, sexism, adultism, nationalism, heterosexism and ageism are some examples of structural violence. Structural violence can then lead to direct violence like family violence, racial violence, hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, and war.
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Foundation that has donated over $14 billion to global health that launched its global health philanthropy in the early 2000s
What is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Which disease, which severely affected a former U.S. President, has been reduced by roughly 90% due to efforts in global childhood immunizations
What is polio
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Father of the smallpox Vaccination
What is Edward Jenner
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The well known phrase coined by the Alma Ata UN Health conference in 1979
What is Health for All by 2000 In 1979, the World Health Assembly decided that the main social target of the governments and of WHO should be the attainment by all people of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life, that is, the goal popularly known as "health for all by the year 2000”
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A collective term for programs targeted at specific diseases and are supposed to bring additional resources to health efforts.
What is Global Health Initiatives Some examples are Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Roll Back Malaria
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The focus of the global health agenda at the United Nations high-level assembly meeting in September 2011
What is Non communicable Diseases
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The eradication of this disease was declared in 1979 by WHO
What is Smallpox Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century. Through the success of the global eradication campaign, smallpox was finally pushed back to the horn of Africa and then to a single last natural case, which occurred in Somalia in 1977. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979. Smallpox is one of the two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011
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Who is Margaret Chan
What is Director general of WHO
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The day the world celebrates World Health Day :)
What is April 7 On April 7,1948, the First World Health Assembly called for the creation of a "World Health Day" to mark the founding of the World Health Organization. Since 1950, we have been celebrating this day and each year WHO a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of concern for WHO. THIS YEAR: The them is Antimicrobial Resistance and how this has become a problem after the establishment of drugs and antibiotics.
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Acronym proposed by UNICEF that addresses the main goals for child survival and development
What is GOBI-FFF Growth monitoring - to prevent most child malnutrition before it begins Oral rehydration therapy - to combat dehydration associated with diarrhea Breastfeeding Immunization Family planning (birth spacing) Female education Food supplementation - e.g. iron and folic acid fortification/supplementation to prevent deficiencies in pregnant women
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Organization founded in 2002 that is currently the largest funder for programs that fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
What is Global Fund
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The disease that was first recognized in 1981 but has killed 25 million people and has infected more than 65 million people in the world today.
What is AIDS
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The founder of the Polio Vaccine
What is John Salk