PH 265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Global Health, United States Agency For International Development, Tuberculosis

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 265
• Professor: Nancy Chin

Document Summary

Aids was once a death sentence and is now a manageable chronic disease (at least for those who have access to the right care) Between 2000 and 2006, the u. s. government increased funding for international aids prevention and treatment more than tenfold. Republicans have a history of being skeptical about giving foreign aid. Even so, the u. s. significantly increased funding for international aids prevention, care, and treatment while. The bill and melinda gates foundation is the largest private funder of global health research and implementation. The global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria receives public and private donations, which it allocates to countries with coordinated strategies for combating the three leading infectious killers on the planet. 3 by 5 initiative by the who and unaids: set the goal of extending antiretroviral treatment to. 3 million people living with aids in low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2005they met their goal in 2007.