M2-Health

• Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) Health Initiatives Positive Impact


  • 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 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
• 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 severe diarrhea
• Over 3.1 million girls in Africa have been immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the main cause of cervical cancer
• World Health Organization (WHO) Health Initiatives Positive Impact

  • 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 programs
• Taiwan was able to develop a well organized framework and model to encourage strong leadership in local governments and to promote participation and engagement in their communities
• WHO Health Initiatives Positive Impact

  • WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC)
  • WHO's Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol
• 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
• 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 increased
• The budget for health in the Philippines has increased, particularly for universal health care after raising the tax imposed to cigarette
• 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
• 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
• 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
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Health Initiatives Positive Impact

  • 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
• Panama achieved high-income status in 2018, leading to a decline in core regular resources from UNDP
• 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 reduced inequalities with the help of UNDP
• United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) Health Initiatives Positive Impact

  • Digital Health Initiative (DHI)
  • Strengthening Health Systems (SHS)
• 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
• 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 are satisfied with that support
• 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. However, stunting continues to affect an estimated 161 million children globally
• In Afghanistan, nearly 1.2 million children under one year receive life-saving vaccines
• On a yearly basis, 6 million pregnant women receive vaccines that prevent nine diseases
• 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 through mobile health teams