Health 10 Quarter 3 – Module 2: Positive Impact of Global Health Initiatives
1. Directions: Choose three
global health initiatives
previously discussed and
foresee their possible impacts
to our country if implemented
properly and strictly.
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5. Global health initiatives
tackle increasing global health
threats, reducing disparities
within communities and among
nations contributing to making
a world where people live
healthier and safer.
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6. The role of Global health
initiatives is to ultimately
strengthen local partnership to
better serve their own
communities.
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1. Global Fund
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Accelerating the
end of AIDS, TB,
malaria as
epidemics
The Results Report 2019
shows great progress
against some of the biggest
challenges in the fight
against the three diseases
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1. Global Fund
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Accelerating the
end of AIDS, TB,
malaria as
epidemics
18.9 million people received
antiretroviral therapy for HIV.
719,000 HIV-positive
mothers received medicine
to keep them alive and
prevent transmitting HIV to
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1. Global Fund
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Accelerating the
end of AIDS, TB,
malaria as
epidemics
5.3 million people tested
and treated for TB.
131 million mosquito
nets distributed to
protect families from
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1. Global Fund
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Accelerating
the end of
AIDS, TB,
malaria as
epidemics
In Rwanda in east Africa, the
Global Fund has supported the
expansion of community health
insurance coverage for 3.3 million
people on low incomes, including
approximately 300,000 people living
with HIV/AIDS and 150, 000
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1. Global Fund
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Accelerating
the end of
AIDS, TB,
malaria as
epidemics
About one-third of
expenditures supported by the
Global Fund are already devoted
to upgrading health-care
infrastructures and to training
and capacity building for health-
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2. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
(GAVI)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Innovation for
Uptake, Scale
and Equity in
Immunization
(INFUSE)
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
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2. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
(GAVI)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Innovation for
Uptake, Scale
and Equity in
Immunization
(INFUSE)
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
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2. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
(GAVI)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Innovation for
Uptake, Scale
and Equity in
Immunization
(INFUSE)
Since inception, nearly 130 million
children were immunized with
pneumococcal vaccine against the
leading cause of pneumonia.
Nearly 78 million children were
immunized since 2000 with rotavirus
vaccine against the leading cause of
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2. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
(GAVI)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Innovation for
Uptake, Scale and
Equity in
Immunization
(INFUSE)
Over 3.1 million girls in
Africa have been immunized
against human
papillomavirus (HPV), which
is the main cause of cervical
cancer.
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Alliance for
Healthy Cities
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
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Alliance for
Healthy
Cities
Taiwan was able to
develop a well-organized
framework and model to
encourage strong leadership
in local governments and to
promote participation and
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Alliance for
Healthy
Cities
Taiwan was able to
develop a well-organized
framework and model to
encourage strong leadership
in local governments and to
promote participation and
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO Framework
Convention on
Tobacco Control
(WHO-FCTC)
Nearly 22 million future
premature smoking-attributable
deaths were averted because of
strong implementation of
demand-reduction measures
adopted by countries between
2007 and 2014.
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO Framework
Convention on
Tobacco Control
(WHO-FCTC)
In Kenya since 2013, there
has been 20% increase in
Tobacco tax revenues due to
new regulations. Between 2001
and 2007, the proportion of
currently smoking students who
wanted to stop smoking
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO Framework
Convention on
Tobacco Control
(WHO-FCTC)
The budget for health in
the Philippines has increased,
particularly for universal
health care after raising the
tax imposed to cigarette.
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO's Global
Strategy to
Reduce the
Harmful Use of
Alcohol
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
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO's Global
Strategy to
Reduce the
Harmful Use of
Alcohol
The Russian Federation implemented
alcohol control measures in 2003. By
2016, recorded consumption of
alcohol had fallen by 40%. Over the
same period all-cause mortality
dropped by 39% in men and 36% in
women, with the sharpest decline in
causes of death linked to alcohol
consumption.
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3. World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
WHO's Global
Strategy to
Reduce the
Harmful Use of
Alcohol
In 2019, the WHO European
region is the only region that
has a significant reduction on
alcohol per capita
consumption which surpassed
a 10% relative reduction in
comparison with 2010.
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4. United Nations Development Program
(UNDP)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
UNDP
Strategic
Plan
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.
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4. United Nations Development Program
(UNDP)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
UNDP
Strategic
Plan
Panama achieved high-
income status in 2018,
leading to a decline in core
regular resources from
UNDP.
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4. United Nations Development Program
(UNDP)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
UNDP
Strategic
Plan
Malaysia’s commitment to
women’s rights and gender
equality has developed over time
in both the domestic and
international arenas. The country
effectively responded to human
development challenges and
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Digital
Health
Initiative
(DHI)
UNICEF has harnessed the
power of ICT to support
countries to ensure that
every child survives and
thrives.
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Digital
Health
Initiative
(DHI)
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
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health Initiatives Positive Impacts
Digital
Health
Initiative
(DHI)
In October 2018, more than 37
million Pakistan children
received measles vaccination
during a 12-day
supplementary immunization
campaign, using real-time
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Digital
Health
Initiative
(DHI)
As of December 2019, in Bangladesh,
initial results indicate that 89 per cent of
registered pregnant women using the real-
time monitoring by Rapidpro have received
antenatal care and 99 percent reported
satisfaction with those services; and 91 per
cent of registered lactating women received
postnatal care and 97 reported that they
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Strengthening
Health
Systems
(SHS)
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
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Strengthening
Health
Systems
(SHS)
Stunting (chronic undernutrition)
among children below age five
decreased from 40 per cent in 1990
to 25 percent in 2013. However,
stunting continues to affect an
estimated 161 million children
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Strengthening
Health
Systems
(SHS)
In Afghanistan, nearly 1.2
million children under one
year receive life-saving
vaccines.
On a yearly basis, 6 million
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5. United Nations International Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
Health
Initiatives
Positive Impacts
Strengthening
Health
Systems
(SHS)
In 2020, 50,364 pregnant
women and 79,362 children
who live more than two hours
away from a health facility
received essential health care
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Activity: Impact of the GHI
Directions: From the different global
health initiatives presented, choose
one and be able to make a poster on
the positive impact of such to
community. You can use situations
that depict the positive impact.
Please also color your poster to make
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Direction: Complete the diagrams with your ideas
and perspectives by answering the question below.
Alcoholism and smoking among students are
two of the most pressing issues they are facing
today. With this, what will be the positive
impacts of the WHO's Global Strategy to
Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol and
WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control to students like you if such initiative is
successfully implemented?