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Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Goals: To reduce malaria mortality and morbidity. Sponsor(s): WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, and others. Key Achievements: Helped halve the number of malaria deaths between 2000 and 2015.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Goals: To defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Sponsor(s): Governments, civil society, private sector. Key Achievements: Millions of lives saved through investments in treatment, prevention, and healthcare systems.
STOP TB Partnership
Goals: To eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem. Sponsor(s): WHO and international partners. Key Achievements: Advocacy, funding, and strategy developments to combat TB.
International Health Regulations (IHR)
Goals: To prevent and respond to acute public health risks that have the potential to cross borders. Sponsor(s): WHO member states. Key Achievements: Development and implementation of IHR (2005) for global health security.
Smallpox Eradication Program
Goals: To eradicate smallpox worldwide. Sponsor(s): World Health Organization (WHO). Key Achievements: Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Goals: To eradicate polio globally. Sponsor(s): WHO, Rotary International, CDC, UNICEF. Key Achievements: Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since the initiative's establishment in 1988.
Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030)
Goals: To improve health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. Sponsor(s): United Nations. Key Achievements: Comprehensive approach aligning with SDGs, engagement with multiple stakeholders for investment in health.
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief)
Goals: To address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Sponsor(s): U.S. Government. Key Achievements: Supported antiretroviral treatment for millions worldwide.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goals: To achieve 17 goals for global sustainable development by 2030. Sponsor(s): United Nations. Key Achievements: Ongoing initiative shaping international and national development policies.
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)
Goals: To rapidly identify, confirm and respond to outbreaks of international importance. Sponsor(s): WHO. Key Achievements: Effective and rapid response to numerous international epidemics and outbreaks.
The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)
Goals: To strengthen national and global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Sponsor(s): Partnership of over 60 nations, international organizations, and NGOs. Key Achievements: Development of measurable targets and assessment tools for health security.
Measles & Rubella Initiative
Goals: To eliminate measles and rubella globally. Sponsor(s): American Red Cross, CDC, UNICEF, WHO, and others. Key Achievements: Reduction of measles deaths by over 70% between 2000 and 2015.
GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance
Goals: To increase access to immunization in poor countries. Sponsor(s): Public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, and others. Key Achievements: Helped vaccinate hundreds of millions of children since its creation in 2000.
Global Health Cluster
Goals: To build and sustain effective emergency health response capacity. Sponsor(s): WHO and various health partners. Key Achievements: Enhanced the capacity of health actors in humanitarian emergencies.
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Control Program
Goals: To control or eliminate neglected tropical diseases. Sponsor(s): Various, including WHO. Key Achievements: Delivered billions of treatments and significantly reduced prevalence of many NTDs.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goals: To achieve eight international development goals. Sponsor(s): United Nations. Key Achievements: Reduced global poverty rate, expanded primary education, and decreased child mortality rates.
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Goals: To improve health systems and outcomes through better health policies and systems research. Sponsor(s): WHO. Key Achievements: Fostered a global movement for health system strengthening.
The Global Strategy to Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy
Goals: To eliminate yellow fever epidemics by 2026. Sponsor(s): WHO, UNICEF, GAVI. Key Achievements: Mass vaccination campaigns and strengthening of laboratory networks.
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Goals: To improve maternal, newborn, child health, and sexual and reproductive health. Sponsor(s): WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, civil society organizations. Key Achievements: Advocacy and mobilization of resources for global health agendas.
UNAIDS
Goals: To end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. Sponsor(s): United Nations. Key Achievements: Promoted global action on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and advocated for rights of those living with HIV.
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