GHI Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are Global Health Initiatives (GHI)?
Partnerships aimed at tackling global health threats, focusing on specific diseases and bringing resources to health efforts.
When were key GHIs launched?
Between 1998 to 2000.
What are three major GHIs?
Roll Back Malaria, Stop Tuberculosis, and Non-Communicable Diseases initiatives.
What are goals of the Roll Back Malaria initiative?
Reduce malaria deaths, increase access to treatment, promote prevention tools, and develop new products.
What is the Stop TB initiative?
A global strategy to end tuberculosis as a public health threat by 2030.
What is DOTS?
Directly Observed Therapy Short-course – a strategy promoted to treat TB.
What does the Global Plan to End TB focus on?
Patient-centered care, early diagnosis, drug-susceptibility testing, treatment of all TB cases, and collaborative HIV/TB activities.
What is GAVI?
The Vaccine Alliance established in 2000 to ensure equitable access to vaccines in developing countries.
What replaced the Millennium Development Goals?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015.
Name two MDG health-related goals.
Reduce child mortality and improve maternal health.
What does SDG Goal 3 aim for?
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
What is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control?
A global public health treaty for sustainable tobacco control.
What is MPOWER?
A WHO technical package for reducing tobacco use through six strategies including monitoring, offering help, and raising taxes.
What is the SAFER alcohol control initiative?
Kenya’s strategy to reduce alcohol harm using restrictions, enforcement, treatment access, and price increases.
What are NCDs?
Non-communicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer that account for nearly 75% of deaths worldwide.
What are key risk factors for NCDs?
Tobacco use, alcohol misuse, poor diet, inactivity, and air pollution.
What is harm reduction?
Policies and programs that reduce health and social consequences of drug use without necessarily eliminating use.
What are the 4 L’s in harm reduction?
Liver, Lover, Livelihood, Law – domains impacted by substance use.
What is the 4-pillar model in drug policy?
Prevention, Treatment, Enforcement, and Harm Reduction.
Who are MARPS?
Most-at-risk populations for HIV, including sex workers, MSM, IDUs, and prisoners.
What are key components of MARPS interventions?
Structural, Behavioral, and Biomedical approaches.
What is the minimum care package for sex workers?
HIV testing, STI treatment, ARVs, PEP, FP, psychosocial support.
What is a challenge for harm reduction programs in Kenya?
Legal obstacles, stigma, homelessness, and low treatment uptake.
