Informing the Future Critical Issues in Health, Third Edition (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The IOM is active on multiple fronts to address global health challenges and to strengthen the capacity of scientific organizations in developing countries so that they can act locally in the same manner as the IOM in bringing good science to inform public- and private-sector actions. ACTIVATING SCIENCE GLOBALLY TO IMPROVE HEALTH A major investment in this regard is the IOM's leadership in forming and helping to operationalize the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
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COMBATTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE The IOM has addressed pandemic influenza in several of its activities. In June 2004, the Forum on Microbial Threats held a workshop to examine the 70 65 60 55 Age 50 45 40 35 1900 1906 1912 1918 1924 1930 1936 1942 1948 1954 1960 Date Life expectancy in the United States, 1900-1960 showing the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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ACTs have proved highly effective in treating malaria, and parasites have not yet developed resistance to them, but their current high cost has limited affordability for individuals and governments. The report proposes that a centralized procurement agency would use subsidy funds to buy ACTs from drug manufactures at competitive prices and then resell them at substantially lower prices to public and private distribution organizations.
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The organization commissioned its own internal economic analysis, which reaffirmed the basic premise of an internationally subsidized system for distributing ACTs, and is con 44
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In recognition of this gap, governments and international organizations have recently launched or are planning largescale programs that will bring ART to millions of people in developing countries. Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities (2004)
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the short term, the United States and other developed nations can mobilize cadres of professionals and technicians to pro vide needed health services and assist with training efforts. Responding to the humanitarian and health crisis of HIV/AIDS in the devel oping world, the president proposed, and Congress enacted, an ambitious program to provide care to 2 million HIV-infected people in 15 countries- 46
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This will require devising strong health care policies supported by adequate resources and expanding public health capacity to recognize priority interventions and implement them effectively. QUARANTINE IN THE 21ST CENTURY The threat of global dispersal of infectious diseases and heightened concern about bioterrorism have stimulated calls for greater vigilance for microbial threats of public health significance at U.S.
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population. Additionally, the quarantine stations should work closely with state and local partners in order to assure the capacity of local health depart ments to take on newly designated responsibilities while continuing to provide essential public health services.
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