-the average life expectancy in 1900 grew 30 years by the year 2000
-in 2002 the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to combat the trio of devastating diseases
-the program estimated that it saved more than 1.5 million lives by at least 1.75 million people receiving drug treatment for HIV/AIDS, 3.9 million were receiving TB treatment, and 59 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets were distributed to malaria-ridden countries
-a global polio eradication initiative was begun in 1988, at which time about 350,000 children in 125 children on five continents were crippled each year by the highly contagious viral disease that attacks the nervous system
-in 1910 the discovery of Salvarson turned out to be the first drug effective against syphilis, beginning the era of modern antimicrobial drug therapy
-smallpox, one of the most deadly and debilitating scourges the world had ever known, represents one of the greatest accomplishments in modern medicine
-in 1980 AIDS aroused caused by the HIV which rapidly grew into a global pandemic
