Write a paragraph on- A Disease Free World.
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It’s appropriate for us on Public Health Thank You Day (PHTYD) to acknowledge the commitment of scientists around the globe who work tirelessly, often under difficult and dangerous circumstances, to solve the world’s most pressing health problems. As we have all been reminded, diseases know no borders so it’s important that we share our expertise and data, and form strong research collaborations—especially in locations with the fewest resources. After all, we are all only as strong as our weakest link.
At the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, we support research and training programs to develop the next generation of global health leaders and increase scientific capacity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We believe this work is critical to improving health around the world, in addition to bringing many dividends to Americans.
Fogarty trainees in many cases provide the bedrock that makes NIH research possible in low-resource settings. When HIV/AIDS emerged as a global crisis in the 1980s, Fogarty began programs to build scientific capacity in the LMICs(link is external) where the suffering was greatest. Since then, research advances have informed care and treatment so that a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS has been transformed from a death sentence to a manageable chronic illness. Fogarty trainees played a significant role in research discoveries(link is external) including development of rapid diagnostics for detecting and monitoring HIV infections, new drugs for treatment and new strategies for prevention, such as avoiding mother-to-child transmission, and treatment as prevention.
From a security standpoint, nations with scientific expertise are better prepared to contain infectious disease outbreaks when they occur. As we saw with Ebola in 2014, the countries that had well-trained researchers who were networked with global experts were able to swiftly manage the Ebola cases that crossed their borders, unlike the nations in West Africa, which had few technical or human resources to deploy. That’s why Fogarty has launched a program that is specifically directed at building partnerships and supporting training for scientists in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone(link is external).