New approaches are needed to deliver preventive public health interventions that will save the lives of children. For example, many children die of preventable diseases because they live beyond the reach of public health services that provide vaccines and other interventions. UNF seeks to support well-founded, new, and innovative processes to reach those who lack access to preventive public health interventions, often the poorest of the poor. Preventing Tobacco Use Tobacco also has an important role in contributing to mortality, although mainly among adults rather than children. The numbers of tobacco-related deaths in developing countries are growing exponentially and will soon surpass those in wealthier countries.
Tobacco continues to be marketed aggressively to children, particularly in developing countries.
The project's goal is to discourage tobacco use among children and adolescents in six countries by first building and then mobilizing an alliance of community, national, and international persons and organziations. Strengthening the public health infrastructure for infectious diseases UNF support for polio eradication can make a lasting contribution to humanity by helping rid the world's children of a terrible disease forever. UNF is considering a partnership with Rotary International to raise substantial resources from the private sector for the eradication efforts. In addition, UNF will commit targeted financial support to polio eradication efforts, particularly in the context of strengthening the pubic health infrastructure, including surveillance and capacity building.