Global and Regional Partners
USAID supports, enhances, and provides
leadership to many global partnerships in the health sector.
These partnerships complement USAID's existing programs
and, by leveraging new resources, expertise, and technologies,
offer greater opportunities to achieve development objectives.
United
Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation seeks
to support the goals and objectives of the United Nations
and its Charter in order to promote a more peaceful, prosperous,
and just world - with special emphasis on the UN's work,
especially on behalf of economic, social, environmental
and humanitarian causes. Within the overall responsibilities
of the UN system, the UN Foundation has identified four
areas of particular interest: Children's Health; the Environment;
Peace, Security and Human Rights; and Women and Population.
The
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO's objective is the attainment
by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
Health is defined in WHO's
Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity. Through WHO's global leadership role a global
surveillance system is being created based on the development
of a "network of networks" which links together
existing local, regional, national and international networks
of laboratories and medical centers into a super surveillance
network. This network is being constructed with the 191
WHO Member States and other partners, including the European
Union-United States Task Force on Emerging Communicable
Diseases and the US-Japan Common Agenda.
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