GCH 205 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2025 GRADED A+
✔✔Leading Causes of Death From Communicable Diseases - ✔✔Lower respiratory
conditions, HIV/AIDS, diarrhea diseases, TB, malaria, meales
✔✔Region with highest prevalence of death from parasitic diseases - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Diseases with drug resistance - ✔✔HIV, Malaria, TB, MRSA, Pneumonia
✔✔Key Factors Contributing to the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases
- ✔✔microbial changes, human susceptibility, climate, economic development, human
behavior, technology, poverty, war, lack of political will, intent to harm
✔✔Key recommendations to address drug resistance - ✔✔Improve surveillance, drug
standards and quality, strengthen drug-regulatory authorities, research
✔✔Number of people living with HIV/AIDS - ✔✔33.3 million
✔✔Number of AIDS deaths - ✔✔1.8 million
✔✔Number of HIV patients being treated with antiretroviral therapy - ✔✔5.2 million
✔✔Number of people living with TB - ✔✔14 million
✔✔Addressing the Burden of Malaria - ✔✔Prompt treatment and confirmed diagnosis
preventative therapy/pregnant women
insecticide bed-nets
indoor spraying
✔✔People with NTD - ✔✔more than 1 billion
✔✔Major NTDs - ✔✔Hookworm, schistosomiasis, trachoma, soil-transmitted
helminths(children) and leprosy
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of CVD - ✔✔Europe and
Central Asia
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Diabetes - ✔✔Latin America
and the Carribean
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Cancer - ✔✔East Asia and
Pacific
, ✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of TB - ✔✔East Asia and
Pacific
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of HIV - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Malaria - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Unintentional injury with highest percentage of death and DALYS - ✔✔road traffic
accidents
✔✔Region with highest percentage of deaths from unintentional injuries - ✔✔Middle
East & North Africa
✔✔United Nations Agencies - ✔✔UNDP
UNFPA
UNICEF
WHO
✔✔Foundations - ✔✔The Aga Khan Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Clinton Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Wellcome Trust
✔✔Nongovernmental Organizations - ✔✔BRAC
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Doctors Without Borders
Oxfam
Partners in Health
Save the Children
✔✔The main reason why global health is a concern to everyone: - ✔✔many diseases
are not limited to national borders
✔✔Which of the following would provide the most health gains at the least cost in an
uneducated rural area of a low- income country? - ✔✔promoting a community-based
handwashing scheme
✔✔Which of the following is the largest contributor to the burden of disease in low- and
middle- income countries?
-outdoor air pollution
SOLUTIONS 2025 GRADED A+
✔✔Leading Causes of Death From Communicable Diseases - ✔✔Lower respiratory
conditions, HIV/AIDS, diarrhea diseases, TB, malaria, meales
✔✔Region with highest prevalence of death from parasitic diseases - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Diseases with drug resistance - ✔✔HIV, Malaria, TB, MRSA, Pneumonia
✔✔Key Factors Contributing to the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases
- ✔✔microbial changes, human susceptibility, climate, economic development, human
behavior, technology, poverty, war, lack of political will, intent to harm
✔✔Key recommendations to address drug resistance - ✔✔Improve surveillance, drug
standards and quality, strengthen drug-regulatory authorities, research
✔✔Number of people living with HIV/AIDS - ✔✔33.3 million
✔✔Number of AIDS deaths - ✔✔1.8 million
✔✔Number of HIV patients being treated with antiretroviral therapy - ✔✔5.2 million
✔✔Number of people living with TB - ✔✔14 million
✔✔Addressing the Burden of Malaria - ✔✔Prompt treatment and confirmed diagnosis
preventative therapy/pregnant women
insecticide bed-nets
indoor spraying
✔✔People with NTD - ✔✔more than 1 billion
✔✔Major NTDs - ✔✔Hookworm, schistosomiasis, trachoma, soil-transmitted
helminths(children) and leprosy
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of CVD - ✔✔Europe and
Central Asia
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Diabetes - ✔✔Latin America
and the Carribean
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Cancer - ✔✔East Asia and
Pacific
, ✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of TB - ✔✔East Asia and
Pacific
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of HIV - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Region with highest percentage of death and DALYS of Malaria - ✔✔Sub-Saharan
Africa
✔✔Unintentional injury with highest percentage of death and DALYS - ✔✔road traffic
accidents
✔✔Region with highest percentage of deaths from unintentional injuries - ✔✔Middle
East & North Africa
✔✔United Nations Agencies - ✔✔UNDP
UNFPA
UNICEF
WHO
✔✔Foundations - ✔✔The Aga Khan Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Clinton Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Wellcome Trust
✔✔Nongovernmental Organizations - ✔✔BRAC
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Doctors Without Borders
Oxfam
Partners in Health
Save the Children
✔✔The main reason why global health is a concern to everyone: - ✔✔many diseases
are not limited to national borders
✔✔Which of the following would provide the most health gains at the least cost in an
uneducated rural area of a low- income country? - ✔✔promoting a community-based
handwashing scheme
✔✔Which of the following is the largest contributor to the burden of disease in low- and
middle- income countries?
-outdoor air pollution
