PIH
PIH supports treatment programs for this infectious disease that affects the lungs and requires long-term antibiotic therapy.
What is tuberculosis?
Vaccines prevent these illnesses and are a major focus of global health programs.
What are infectious diseases?
This organization, founded in 1948, is the primary international body responsible for global public health.
What is the World Health Organization?
This disease was officially declared eradicated worldwide in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign.
What is smallpox?
What is October 1?
This is the year PIH was founded.
What is 1987?
This mosquito-borne illness causes fever, chills, and can be deadly if left untreated.
What is malaria?
This pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, killed an estimated 50 million people in 1918–1919.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020.
What is the WHO?
This type of spending has to be approved each year through the appropriations process.
What is discretionary spending?
There is a resolution in this PIH co-founder's name advocating for health as a human right.
Who is Paul Farmer?
This federal health insurance program primarily serves adults age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
This US government agency is the primary provider of foreign aid and funds many global health programs.
What is USAID?
This international declaration in 1978 emphasized primary health care as the key to "Health for All."
What is the Alma-Ata Declaration?
This city is home to the World Health Organization's (WHO) headquarters.
What is Geneva?
After PIH was established, what country did their first project occur in?
What is Haiti?
This US program, launched in 2003, is one of the largest commitments to combat HIV/AIDS globally.
What is PEPFAR?
This international framework, adopted in 2000, set eight goals to address poverty and disease by 2015.
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
This disease is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, surpassing HIV/AIDS in recent years.
What is tuberculosis?
This is Wisconsin's governor.
Who is Tony Evers?
PIH does work in this many countries.
What is 11?
PIH's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak included training staff and providing community education in this West African country.
What is Sierra Leone?
Paul Farmer was the subject of this influential book about PIH's work in Haiti, published in 2003.
What is Mountains Beyond Mountains?
What is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control?
This is PIH's motto.
What is "Injustice Has a Cure?"