Other communicable diseases
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)
- The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turnaround in the fight against these three diseases. It is intended to support a massive scaling-up of resources, funding the work of new and existing programs. Through the first three rounds of project approvals, the Global Fund has committed $2.1 billion to health services in developing countries.
- Stop TB
- The Stop TB Partnership is a broad coalition led by the World Health Organization to combat this major disease. Its Global Plan to Stop TB proposes the expansion of national access to DOTS, the internationally accepted strategy through which healthcare workers and community volunteers treat people suffering from TB with a combination of medicines, in ways that ensure the success of their lengthy treatment.
- Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)
- The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing effort to assess disease control priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to inform health policymaking in developing countries. DCPP has produced three volumes providing technical resources that can assist developing countries in improving their health systems and ultimately, the health of their people.
- Roll Back Malaria (RBM)
- RBM is a global partnership founded in 1998 by WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, and the World Bank with the goal of halving the world's malaria burden by 2010. The RBM partnership includes national governments, civil society and non-governmental organisations, research institutions, professional associations, UN and development agencies, development banks, the private sector and the media.
- Polio eradication (WHO)
- In 1988 the WHO World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate polio. The global eradication of polio involves both halting the incidence of the disease and the worldwide eradication of the virus that causes it - poliovirus. Polio is one of only a limited number of diseases (others include measles and guinea worm disease) that can be eradicated. During the 1970s routine immunisation with oral polio vaccine (OPV) as part of national immunisation programmes (EPI) was introduced worldwide, helping to control the disease in many developing countries.
