Timeline of global health TB Partnership. UN's Millennium Development Goals establishes health care as an important goal (not just combating infectious diseases). Later in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals build on the MDGs to outline the objectives that will transform our world by ending poverty, helping the environment, and improving health and education. More specific disease-targeting organizations are created primarily to fund healthcare plans in developing countries, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. These organizations (especially the WHO) adopt new strategies and initiatives, including the 3 by 5 Initiative to widen the
Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health is an exhibition that opened to the public at the United States National Library of Medicine on April 17, 2008. The exhibition explores aspects of the history of global health as well as contemporary issues and "champions holistic solutions to health problems." Materials from the History of Medicine Division of the library are on display alongside artifacts and images gathered from around the world. Featured stories include the Barefoot doctors of China, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on health care in the