Health Education, Disease Prevention and Wellness Services

This division focuses on developing effective standards for educating our customers to deal with epidemic diseases.  We agree that prevention is a key method of reducing epidemics.  We provide technical assistance in the area of prevention of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases.

The management of pandemic infectious diseases is currently complicated due to the advances made in the care of infected persons.  Such diseases are now viewed differently; the stigmas that were once associated with infections are losing their importance.  A new generation of adults, individuals who were either not born or were babies during major wave of pandemic disease in the past have a more cavalier attitude This may be due to the advances in disease management, which have turned some infectious diseases into chronic conditions and not the death sentence they once were.  The Foundation however holds the view that the public health and economic harm caused by pandemics are more serious than those caused by other chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes, and so we must approach pandemics differently.