HEALTH CITIZENSHIP STAGE 2

1. HEALTH

2. HEALTH FACTS
• ◦In 2008, there were 247 million cases of
malaria and nearly one million deaths -
mostly among children living in Africa.
• ◦In Africa a child dies every 45 seconds of
malaria; the disease accounts for 20% of
all childhood deaths.
• ◦22 Countries outside of Africa have
reported 50% drop in Malaria cases.
• ◦Malaria kills 8,000 Brazilians yearly -
more than AIDS and cholera combined.

3. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING TO HELP
THE MALARIA SITUATION
• Organisations fighting to ease malaria include:
• USAID: supports malaria control and prevention
programs on three continents - Africa, Asia, and South
America
• Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative by UNICEF (United
Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• World Bank
• Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
• Aga Khan Foundation
• Lutheran World Relief
• World Vision

4. GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM
• Global Health Program - The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation sponsors a
Global Health Program that harnesses
advances in science and technology to
save lives in poor countries. They focus
on the health problems that have a
major impact in developing countries
but get too little attention and funding.
Where proven tools exist, they support
sustainable ways to improve their
delivery, and where they don't, they
invest in research and development of
new interventions, such as
vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics.

5. WHAT WE CAN DO ?
• We can learn first aid so that we
can help in case someone is in
trouble . I can also donate
money to health organization so
that they can do more to help
the sick people . We can also
teach my friends more about
the sick people who need our
help so that they know what is
going on.

6. CREDITS
DONE BY TEAM2
• JAMES
• SHAWN
• ISAAC