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My public health timeline
1948 Establishment of the WHO
Vaccination programs
Health education
Disease prevention
Clean water and sanitation
To improve global health and fight diseases around the world it brought countries together to work on:
Maternal and child health
the WHO was established on 7 April 1948
1980s HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Safe sexual practices
Blood screening
Health education
Infection prevention and control
The HIV/AIDS epidemic changed public healthy by highlighting the importance of:
During the early 1980s, doctors began noticing a new disease that weakened immune system HIV/AIDS
Reducing stigma and discrimination
Research and treatment programs
First international conference on health promotion: The Ottawa Charter for health promotion was adopted. November 1986
Strengthen community action
Develop personal skills
Create supportive environments
Reorient health services
Build healthy public policy e.g. no smoking rules
2.Last natural case of smallpox October 1977 in Somalia
Health teams quickly found and vaccinated all his contact
He recovered and no one else got sick
It was a hospital cook, Ali Maow Maalin, in Merca
This was the last time smallpox spread naturally
WHO declared the world free of smallpox in 1980
15 May 2026 Cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, Gauteng
Caused by sewage pollution in the Apies River which contaminated drinking water
Cholera deaths rise to 15 as water tests confirm contamination
This shows how poor sanitation and environmental management leads to disease
It relates to disease prevention because safe water supply and sewage treatment would have prevented these deaths