Global Health

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INTERNATIONAL GENEVA Impact on GLOBAL HEALTH 44%

WHO

reports

were sleeping under

2013

were fitted with

prostheses

an insecticide-treated

net

in Tuberculosis mortality

ICRC

Between 1990 and 2013 the number of children affected by stunting

declined globally from 257 million to 161

medical technology 2014

representing a

decrease of 37%

12.3 million people treated for tuberculosis

million,

892 million people with

2014

52 percent of these were in Africa

2014

including

more nutritious foods

provided

with

water and sanitation services

or information on

hygiene & disease prevention

7.2 million

of 5

The percentage of countries offering

14 weeks

ILO reports

or more

maternity leave

GAVI supported the immunisation

has increased from

500 million children

– equivalent to the combined populations of

UNAIDS reports

France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America 2013

Decrease in the number of

new

530 000 640 000

HIV infections

2014

among

58%

<

38%

million

210 000 280 000

children

2001

2013

metric tons of food distributed

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

3.1

for

2013

children under the age

2 percent in the rest of the world

of an estimated

people were

reduced or stabilized

51%

Since 2000

12 million

Undernutrition was

350 million

women and children

children

the

46 percent in Asia

1,476

families

distributed to protect families from malaria

GAIN programs reached an estimated

of

with their

450 million insecticide-treated nets

7.3 million people currently receiving antiretroviral therapy

organized

reunification

THE GLOBAL FUND

it represents 14% of all applications

1. Computer technology 2. Digital communication 3. Electrical machinery 4. Medical Technology

the

IFRC Global Water and Sanitation Initiative

were filled under the Patent Cooperation Treaty

2013

and 31,211 with orthoses

2013

13,996 International applications in the field of

9,146 patients

45% decline

at risk

2004

reports

(estimated)

of the population

2%

WIPO

1990

sources: http://www.who.int; http://www.wipo.int; http://www.unaids.org http://www.theglobalfund.org; http://www.gainhealth.org; http://www.wfp.org; http://www.ilo.org; https://www.icrc.org/en; http://www.ifrc.org; http://www.gavi.org;


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