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Lesson 2: Positive Impact of Global Health Initiatives: Group 4

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Group 4

Lesson 2: Positive Impact of Global Health


Initiatives
Prayer
Dear Lord and Father of All, thank you
for today. Thank you for ways in which
your provide for us all. For your
protection and love, we thank you. Help
us to focus our hearts and minds now on
what we are about to learn. Inspire us by
your Holy Spirit as we listen and write.
Guide us your eternal light as we
discover more about the worl around us,
we ask all this in the name of Jesus,
Amen.
Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunizations (GAVI):
Health Initiatives

Innovation for Uptake,


Scale and Equity in
Immunization (INFUSE)
Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunizations (GAVI):
Positive Impact
Since 2016, GAVI has immunized nearly
200 million children and are ahead of reaching
300 million children by 2020.
The breadth of protection has increased,
by 10 percentage points in the last year alone
and 21 percentage points since the beginning
of the strategy period.

Since its inception in 2000, Gavi-


supported immunization programmed in Africa

have helped avert 7.5 million deaths.


Over 250 million children were
immunized with pentavalent vaccine
(diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Hep B and Hib)
since 2000.
2. World Health
Organization (WHO):
Health Initiatives

Alliance for Healthy


Cities
World Health Organization
(WHO): Positive Impact
The first Healthy Cities Programs were
launched in developed countries (i.e. Canada,
USA, Australia, many European nations). The
programs have proven successful in increasing
understanding of health and environment
linkages and in the creation of intersectoral
partnerships to ensure a sustainable,
widespread programs.
WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco
Control (WHO-FCTC)
WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco
Control (WHO-FCTC):
Positive Impact
TNearly 22 million future premature
smoking-attributable deaths were averted
because of strong implementation of demand-
reduction measures adopted by countries
between 2007 and 2014.
WHO's Global Strategy to
Reduce the Harmful Use of
Alcohol
World Health Organization
(WHO): Positive Impact
The United States saw a 16% median
decline in motor vehicle crashes.
Brazil reduced the opening hours of
bars from 24 hours a day to closure at 11 pm
was associated with a 44% drop in homicides.
3. United Nations
Development Program
(UNDP): Health
Initiative

UNDP Strategic Plan


United Nations Development Program
(UNDP): Positive Impact
Global poverty has fallen from 35 per
cent in 1990 to under 10 per cent in 2016,
reducing the number of poor people in the
world by over 1 billion.
Panama achieved high-income status in
2018, leading to a decline in core regular
resources from UNDP
4. United Nations
International Children's
Fund (UNICEF): Health
Initiatives

Digital Health
Inititative
Digital Health: Positive Impact
UNICEF has harnessed the power of ICT
to support countries to ensure that every child
survives and thrives.

Around the world, 85.8 million mothers,


community health workers, vaccinators, and
health facility staff in 18 countries have
benefited from digital health platforms and the
communities they connect to the health
system.

In October 2018, more than 37 million


Pakistan children received measles vaccination
during a 12-day supplementary immunization
campaign, using real-time monitoring powered
by RapidPro, according to government reports.
Strengthening Health
Systems (SHS)

Health Inititative
Strengthening Health
Systems (SHS): Positive Impact
Since 1990, through the UNICEF Health
Systems Strengthening Approach remarkable
gains have been made in improving outcomes
for children and women.

The number of children dying before the age of five years has
almost halved and similar progress has been
made in maternal mortality.
Stunting (chronic undernutrition)
among children below age five decreased from
40 per cent in 1990 to 25 percent in 2013.
What are the negative effects of tobacco and
alcohol use?
How can someone avoid being involved in the
use of alcohol and tobacco?

Thank You
For Your
Attention.

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