Treatment of HIV infection with medicines that stop the virus from replicating in a person's body. These medicines are called antiretroviral drugs.

Frontline public health workers who provide basic health and medical care to their communities. They usually share ethnicity, language, and life experiences with the community members they serve.

Medicines that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness.

An area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.

The absence of unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes between groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.

Legal rights that give creators protection for original works, inventions, or the appearance of products. In healthcare, these often relate to pharmaceutical patents and their impact on medicine access.

A life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable with proper treatment.

Chronic diseases that are not passed from person to person. They include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes. NCDs are the leading cause of death globally.

Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community.

A potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs. TB is spread through the air when people with active TB cough, sneeze, or spit. It is curable and preventable.

The goal that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.