Global Health

Global health as a discipline is frequently regarded to be of imperial origin, and there have been calls for its decolonisation.

The potentially destructive polarisation between vertical and horizontal financing of health services in developing countries has found its way to the pages of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times.

WHO‘s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, launched today, outlines three key steps: vaccination, screening and treatment.

Jhpiego works in over 38 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

George Brock Chisholm (18 May 1896 - 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).

After the end of her term as PM, Brundtland was then elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in May 1998.

On 12 December 1994, he was appointed executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases is a global health project that aims to mobilise political and financial resources for the control and eradication of infectious diseases, the so-called neglected tropical diseases.

World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14 to raise awareness around Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease present mostly in Latin America.

Sightsavers is an international non-governmental organisation that works with partners in developing countries to treat and prevent avoidable blindness, and promote equality for people with visual impairments and other disabilities.

World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis, a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

The Leprosy Mission (TLM) is an international and inter-denominational Christian medical organisation focused on the treatment and eradication of Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy.

The Task Force for Global Health is an international, nonprofit organization that works to improve health of people most in need, primarily in developing countries.

It was inspired by the World Health Organization roadmap to eradicate or prevent transmission for neglected tropical diseases by the year 2020.

The Global Buruli Ulcer Initiative (GBUI) is a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to coordinate global efforts to control Buruli ulcer, an infectious disease characterized by the development of painless open wounds.

World NTD Day or World NTD (Neglected Tropical Diseases) Day is an awareness day for addressing neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

The END Fund (Ending Neglected Diseases) is a private non-profit organisation dedicated to combating the five most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that cause up to 90% of the NTD burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) is a non-profit organization that aims to eliminate deaths from canine rabies by 2030.

The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases is an advocacy initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a group of disabling, disfiguring, and deadly diseases affecting more than 1.4 billion people worldwide living on less than $1.25 a day.

Unlimit Health (previously known as SCI Foundation and as the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) is an international organisation working to end parasitic disease.

World Rabies Day is an international awareness campaign coordinated by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, a non-profit organization with headquarters in the United States.

The 10 209 new cases reported in 2014 represents a 75% decrease from 2005 when the Kala-Azar Elimination Programme was launched. “ Achieving a drop of 85% in mortality is impressive, ” said Dr Daniel Argaw Dagne, Head of the Leishmaniasis Control Programme at WHO’s Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. “ What is more impressive is that Nepal, having eliminated kala-azar at district level, has been able to sustain the gain for the past 2 years.

This document describes the reasoning behind and need for an updated, long-term (2017-2026) and global strategy to “Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics” (EYE).

The Regional Framework for the Triple Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis in Asia and the Pacific 2018-2030 upholds the vision that every infant should be free of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis.

The road map sets global targets and milestones to prevent, control, eliminate or eradicate 20 diseases and disease groups as well as cross-cutting targets aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.

As a result, in 1997 three initiatives were established into one, the Initiative of the Countries of Central America and Belize for Interruption of Vector-borne Transmission of Chagas disease by R. prolixus , Reduction of Household Infestation by Triatoma dimidiata , and Elimination of Transfusional Transmission of T. cruzi (IPCA).

The objective of the EMTCT Plus initiative is to achieve and sustain the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, Chagas, and perinatal hepatitis B (HBV)

National Leprosy Eradication Program is a health scheme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to eradicate leprosy in India.

In 1985, Rotary launched its PolioPlus program to immunize all of the world's children against polio.

ITI collaborates with governmental and nongovernmental agencies at the local, national and international levels to implement the WHO-recommended SAFE strategy for trachoma control (Surgery; Antibiotics-using donated Zithromax®; Facial cleanliness; and Environmental improvement).

With the declaration of polio eradication as a programmatic emergency by the World Health Assembly in 2012, the number of STOP volunteers deployed increased from 90-120 per year during 1999-2011 to 287 in 2012 and 371 in 2013 ( Figure ); the number of volunteer person-months in the field per year increased from 273 in 1999 to 1,456 in 2012.

The definition of Neonatal Tetanus (NT) elimination as a public health problem is having less than one NT case per 1000 live births in every district per year.

Overview Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease.

A nongovernmental organization, the Center has helped to advance peace and health in more than 85 countries.