Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) Strategic Plan for 2006-2010

摘要

This document describes a new USAID Bureau for Global Health (GH) Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition (HIDN) ten-year activity focused on implementation and scale-up of proven environmental health interventions to prevent morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases, primarily in young children, but also among vulnerable adult populations. This new Environmental Health (EH) activity is a follow-on to core elements of the USAID Environmental Health Project (EHP) and will commence in mid-2004. The goal of the EH activity is to reduce mortality and morbidity in children under five years of age, as well as mortality and morbidity associated with infectious diseases of major public health importance. The EH strategic objective contributes to this goal by sustainable scale-up of priority interventions that reduce exposure to agents of disease and to hazards that exacerbate disease, by focusing on improvements in key behaviors and environmental conditions. Diarrhea and pneumonia remain the two leading killers of children in the post-neonatal period, each responsible for approximately one-fifth of deaths of children under five years of age in the forty-two countries that account for 90% of the estimated annual global total of 10.8 million under-five deaths, according to a recent published analysis.