🌍HEALTH Q3 LT1: Global Health Initiatives

Test type: Identification

Global health issues

Global health issues

-These wide-reaching problems in health.

Threats to Global Health

-The need for GHIs stems from various health issues that have plagued the world

2019

-World Health organization (WHO) believes that these 10 threats to global health.

Air Pollution

The ultimate environmental risk that damages the respiratory and circulatory systems, affecting the lungs, heart, and brain.

Non-communicable Diseases

Diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease that cause over 70% of global deaths, resulting in 15 million premature deaths between ages 30 and 69.

Global Influenza Pandemic

Necessitates a well-established global health emergency preparedness and response system to effectively handle outbreaks.

Fragile and Vulnerable Settings

Over 22% of the global population living in areas with prolonged crises, lacking adequate health services due to drought, famine, conflict, and displacement.

Antimicrobial Resistance

The ability of microorganisms to resist modern medicines, affecting treatments for infections like malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis.

Ebola and Other High-threat Pathogens

Demands preparedness during disease outbreaks, pandemics, and other health emergencies caused by highly dangerous pathogens.

Weak Primary Health Care

The lack of adequate primary healthcare facilities, which are crucial for the initial treatment of illnesses.

Vaccine Hesitancy

Hinders disease prevention efforts and contributes to millions of preventable deaths yearly.

Dengue

Affects nearly 40% of the global population, causing around 390 million infections annually; WHO aims to halve deaths by 2029 through control strategies.

HIV/AIDS

An epidemic causing almost one million deaths yearly, with around 37 million people living with HIV globally and 35 million deaths.

Gavi the Vaccine Alliance

Founded in 2000 to promote vaccine use among children in the poorest areas, now known as Gavi.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

Aims to gather additional funds to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria outbreaks.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Addresses the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in Africa, to save the lives of those living with HIV.