How Much Do You Know About Global Health?

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Yes. the study determined that in 1990, childhood underweight was the sixth leading risk factor for premature death worldwide while having a high body mass index (being overweight or obese) came in ninth. The institute told us that in 2005, childhood underweight had dropped to the 11th leading risk factor while high body mass index moved up to seventh. In 2010, being overweight or obese moved up one more spot, to the sixth leading risk factor for death globally, and childhood underweight stayed in 11th place.

Mental health. Dr. Feinberg made that statement during a preview of the study at Kane Hall.

Suicide. The study identified suicide as the clear leading cause of death amongst Indian women aged 15 to 49. The study found that over 78,000 young Indian women had committed suicide in 2010. Adjusted for population, this is six times the equivalent figure in the UK. As a cause of death amongst young Indian women suicide has jumped from fifth in 1990 to first in 2010.

Increased dramatically – 354% increase from 1990. It moved from 33 to No. 5.

Chagas' disease (Trypanosoma cruzi), African sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), leishmaniasis, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, and malaria.

This three-year award is ed by Dr. Muthoni Mathai from the University of Nairobi and Dr. Jurgen Unutzer from the University of Washington, and builds upon the nearly 30-year research training collaboration between UW and the University of Nairobi. Dr. Deepa Rao is the UW program director.

Mobile Moms is a project by Health Alliance International to use mobile phones to deliver health messages to pregnant women living in remote rural areas of Timor-Leste as a means of improving communication between the women and their midwives and assist with having a safe pregnancy and delivery of a healthy baby.

The Gairdner Award in Canada, which is likened to the Nobel Prize. Holmes and his colleagues have worked on 20 of 35 known STDs.

Truvada

China, both for men and women

Road injuries

Southeast Asia

Blood pressure is No. 1, followed by tobacco, alcohol, and poor diet.

800 million

Lack of VIP treatment

Falling, rising.

Climate change. “The number of people in extreme poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050 unless environmental disasters are averted by co-ordinated global action,” said the report.

Afghanistan. The latest figures - which tally only incidents affecting NGO personnel, excluding UN aid workers - show that in the first three months of this year, NGOs were affected by 39 separate incidents of violence, a 63 percent increase over 2012. Twenty incidents were attributed to armed opposition groups, 11 to pro-government forces and eight to criminals.

Technically no. "We don't think there's sustained human-to-human transmission, because the only instances where there might have been human-to-human transmission are between two close family members," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, explaining that the family members and neighboring children may have been exposed to the same infected bird. "The main thing now is to figure out how this virus spreads and where it lives. Until then, we're shooting in the dark," he said.

On average, three years. Dr. Newman said in 2010, the height of bednet distribution, 150m were handed out.

Gonorrhea. New guidance from the CDC suggests the number of treatment-resistant infections to the once curable disease are on the rise, according to research published Feb. 14, 2013 in the agency's journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report. Gonorrhea is the second-most commonly reported STD in the U.S., according to the CDC.

Rabies. There has never been a documented case of any animal surviving rabies. If a human gets bitten by an animal with rabies they have 48 hours to get to a hospital to be treated, otherwise the human will not live either. Rabies symptoms can take 2-10 days to show and up to 14 days to infect the brain.

Eric Goosby. U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador "was named to lead a new Office of Global Health Diplomacy in December 2012. The Global Health Diplomacy office was announced last July as the successor to President Obama's Global Health Initiative. Goosby will be joined in creating the Global Health Diplomacy office by Leslie Rowe, previously U.S. ambassador to Mozambique, who will be in charge of its day to day operations.

"The task of the Office of Global Health Diplomacy is to guide diplomatic efforts to advance the United States' global health mission to improve and save lives and foster sustainability through a shared global responsibility," Goosby writes in the State Department's "DipNote" blog. "The new office will bring the full force of U.S. diplomacy to advancing our global health goals.

Penn, 52, signed the grant with the Haitian government to help an estimated 14,000 people still living in temporary camps at the Petionville Club golf course to move out by early 2014. A statement from Penn's PR firm said the grant will go toward rent subsidies or new housing units.