Global public health challenge

Governments, international and local organizations should come up with measures that will surpass these life threatening health challenges. Such initiatives include creating awareness in the community about the surroundings, coming up with concrete health education strategies and increasing funding to accommodate innovative scientific inquiry. The mosquito positions itself as a major threat to public health. In the past few years zika virus which is evidently transmitted by mosquitos has proved to cause numerous death. In 2016, the World Health Organization in collaboration with a number of governments carried out intensive research on the Zika virus. It is now evident that the virus actively exists in areas containing high population of mosquitos. Aedes mosquito also spreads other diseases such as yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya.

The global health challenge posed by this virus is heightened by the fact that its incubation period is a few days. The symptoms are usually mild but lead to numerous complications including paralysis and death. This virus is still spreading to other parts of the world especially in areas where the population of mosquitos is high. This organization responded with a strategic plan that included four main objectives. These 4 main objectives were meant to support national governments and communities in preventing and managing the complications of Zika virus. Also they helped to mitigating the socioeconomic consequences brought by the virus the role that world health organization played included detection, prevention, care and support, as well as research. In detection, W. H.

Expanding health systems’ capacities in affected countries was one of the major objectives of the Strategic Response Plan. According to W. H. O, the spread of Zika virus could have long-term health consequences for families, communities, and countries. Health systems would be challenged to care for children born with these complications. This helped to create awareness in the public (CDC, 2017). Also the organization set up reporting centers and offered guidelines on how to provide care. CDC also issued interim guidelines for clinicians concerning how to treat pregnant women who had been diagnosed with Zika and how to care for infants born to mothers who could have been infected during their pregnancies. Again, CDC offered travel advisory to countries that had been declared to have the virus.