Listed among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the eradication of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and hepatitis by 2030, and the reduction of premature deaths from non-communicable diseases. Taiwan runs over 50 programs to combat such diseases as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, bird flu, Ebola, MERS, zika, dengue fever, breast cancer, and kidney failure in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the South Pacific.
Taiwan has also worked in countries like São Tomé and Príncipe, where over 40 percent of the population used to suffer from malaria. Child mortality here was once so high that parents did not elect to name their children unless they had reached the age of five. Yet after Taiwan dispatched Dr. Lien Jih-ching and a team of professionals to the nation in 2000, the child infection rate for malaria was radically cut. In 2015, only one percent of the residents in São Tomé and Príncipe were infected, with no deaths reported. The work of Taiwan’s dedicated professionals changed the fate of children here forever.
Listed among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the eradication of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and hepatitis by 2030, and the reduction of premature deaths from non-communicable diseases. Taiwan runs over 50 programs to combat such diseases as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, bird flu, Ebola, MERS, zika, dengue fever, breast cancer, and kidney failure in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the South Pacific.
Taiwan has also worked in countries like São Tomé and Príncipe, where over 40 percent of the population used to suffer from malaria. Child mortality here was once so high that parents did not elect to name their children unless they had reached the age of five. Yet after Taiwan dispatched Dr. Lien Jih-ching and a team of professionals to the nation in 2000, the child infection rate for malaria was radically cut. In 2015, only one percent of the residents in São Tomé and Príncipe were infected, with no deaths reported. The work of Taiwan’s dedicated professionals changed the fate of children here forever. ( Read More... )
