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AIDS - 2.9 million deaths worldwide in 2006
Tuberculosis - 1.6 million deaths in 2005
Malaria - 1 million deaths, mostly children, each year
Cancer - 7.6 million deaths in 2005
Source: World Health Organization
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In today’s world of increasing globalization, diseases have the potential to spread across the world at warp speed. To protect the health of Americans and to eradicate worldwide health threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively engaged in sharing knowledge and expertise in public health with international partners. The CDC Foundation helps CDC fight global health threats by fostering collaborations between CDC and other groups to support a variety of international health programs.
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CDC Foundation Programs Span the Globe
View an interactive map that illustrates how CDC Foundation programs span the globe.
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Featured Program:
Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
The CDC Foundation has received a grant from Michael Bloomberg to establish systematic surveys to monitor global tobacco use among adults. The grant is part of a $125 million initiative by Bloomberg to create a partnership devoted to reducing dependence on tobacco around the world. Read More |
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Featured Program:
Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program In Kenya
This CDC Foundation program trains local scientists in Kenya to respond to disease outbreaks and improve the region's overall public health system.
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Global Health Programs
(Initiated or active between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006.)
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Accelerated Development & Introduction Program (ADIP) for Rotavirus Vaccine
To conduct surveillance of rotavirus in Asia. To assess the burden of diease, identify peculiarities in its epidemiology, create an awareness of the local importance of the disease, characterize a sample of strains in circulation, and prepare methods to monitor the impact of a vaccination program.
- Funding Partners: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Chagas Laboratory Research Program
To fund a laboratory research assistant in CDC’s Guatemala program (MERTU).
- Funding Partners: Dr. Zell Kravinshky and Dr. Emily Kravinsky
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Clinic-based Distribution and Mobilization of Safe Water
To produce and provide hypoclorite solution, plastic bottles and safe water storage containers for local families that come into various hospitals in Afghanistan. To provide education on the use of the treatment solution and storage vessels to raise awareness of the importance of the safe water system.
- Funding Partners: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Program Partners: Afghanistan Ministry of Health, Population Services International, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Combating Dengue Fever in Indonesia
To demonstrate that controlling mosquitoes in common household containers can dramatically reduce the incidence of dengue fever.
- Funding Partners: Jean and Julius Tahija Family Foundation
- Program Partners: I.D. Analysis; National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Emerging Infectious Diseases International Laboratory Fellowships
To prepare a cadre of trained laboratory leaders in infectious disease prevention and control throughout the world by providing year-long laboratory fellowships for international participants.
- Funding Partners: Chiron Foundation, Eli Lilly and Company
- Program Partners: Association of Public Health Laboratories, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Field Epidemiology Training Program in Brazil
To provide technical assistance to the Brazil Ministry of Health for the development of a Field Epidemiology Training Program and a Data for Decision-Making Program to train physicians and nurses to conduct surveillance and investigate disease outbreaks.
- Funding Partners: Brazil Ministry of Health, The World Bank
- Program Partners: Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Hib Disease Initiative Supporting Country Decision Making
To provide technical assistance related to epidemiologic and lab activities for establishing the burden of Hib disease (haemophilus influenzae type B) or documenting the impact of Hib vaccination and overall assistance with global strategies to address Hib disease.
- Funding Partners: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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O.C. Hubert Student Fellowship in International Health
To provide opportunities for medical school students to spend one to three months working in other countries with CDC scientists on priority health problems.
- Funding Partners: O.C. Hubert Charitable Trust
- Program Partners: Office of Workforce and Career Development, CDC
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Improving Health Care for Women and Children in Afghanistan
To support maternal and child health care surveillance training in Kabul and in four district-level programs in Afghanistan.
- Funding Partners: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Improving Home-Based Care for HIV/AIDS Patients in Rural Zimbabwe
To train community-based providers in home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in a rural district of Zimbabwe.
- Funding Partners: The Pfizer Foundation
- Program Partners: University of Zimbabwe, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, CDC
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International Flour Fortification
To promote the use of flour fortified with iron and folic acid around the world by encouraging the production and marketing of fortified flour.
- Funding Partners: Cargill, Incorporated
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Joint Global Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program in Kenya
To combine internationally based training for both laboratory scientists and epidemiologists in a setting where this training can utilize CDC’s existing infrastructure investments for emerging infectious diseases in Kenya and support national and regional surveillance and response capacity.
- Funding Partners: The Ellison Medical Foundation
- Program Partners: Kenya Medical Research Institute; Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Repository
To support a mosquito stock repository that supplies living and preserved laboratory cultured malaria-vector mosquitoes to researchers studying malaria.
- Funding Partners: American Type Culture Collection; The Rockefeller University; Snell Scientifics; SpringbornSmithers Laboratories; University of California, Davis; University of Florida; University of Illinois
- Program Partners: Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC
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Malaria Scholars Project
To increase CDC's capacity to provide the necessary leadership and technical assistance required to successfully address the global malaria problem by hiring and training a cadre of malaria specialists.
- Funding Partners: BASF Corporation, Canadian Red Cross, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Vestergaard Frandsen SA
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Measuring Pneumococcal Disease Burden in Developing Countries
To establish a surveillance network for invasive pneumococcal disease in the eastern Mediterranean region, and to establish the local burden of pneumococcal disease in the region’s developing countries.
- Funding Partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) Fellowship
To fund one fellow who will provide technical and managerial expertise to help demonstrate rapid methods to culture MDRTB and test its susceptibility to various drugs.
- Funding Partners: The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) of Geneva Switzerland
- Program Partners: National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, CDC
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Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) Surveillance Program in Russia
To strengthen monitoring of MDRTB within the framework of overall TB monitoring activities in Russia.
- Funding Partners: Eli Lilly and Company
- Program Partners: National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, CDC
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Management and Training in Peru
To develop a model for MDRTB surveillance and control programs in resource-poor countries that includes research, training and technology components.
- Funding Partners: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Harvard Medical School
- Program Partners: National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, CDC
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Population-based Surveillance for Pneumonia with Detection of S.pneumoniae
To coordinate and perform a range of surveillance and research activities designed to determine the incidence of pneumoccal infections among children and adults in two provinces in Thailand.
- Funding Partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Post Campaign Malaria Survey - Niger
To evaluate the coverage achieved in a campaign to prevent polio and malaria in Niger that distributed insecticide-treated mosquito nets during polio immunization activities.
- Funding Partners: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Protecting Health Care Workers in Afghanistan
To vaccinate health care workers of Rabia Balkhi hospital in Afghanistan against infectious disease.
- Funding Partners: Chiron Foundation; The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, Inc.
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC
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Protocol to Measure the Burden of Pneumonia in Mozambique
To conduct prospective, population-based surveillance for severe pneumonia in children 0 - 23 months of age in Manhica, Mozambique.
- Funding Partners: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Rotavirus Vaccine Development in India
To develop a partnership with a local manufacturer to produce and test an oral rotavirus vaccine in India. To assess the burden and epidemiology of rotavirus and prepare methods to monitor the impact of a vaccination program.
- Funding Partners: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
- Program Partners: Christian Medical College; India Institute of Science; Indian Council for Medical Research; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Safe Water in Mozambique
To implement a community-based program to promote the use of the Safe Water System (hypochlorite solution and effective storage container) in Dhaka, Bangladesh to help prevent diarrheal diseases.
- Funding Partners: Arch Chemicals, Inc.
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Safe Water in Tsunami-affected Sri Lanka
- To prevent diarrheal disease through the use of CDC's Safe Water System in tsunami-affected communities in Sri Lanka.
- Funding Partners: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Safe Water System - Bangladesh
To implement a community-based program to promote the use of the Safe Water System (hypochlorite solution and effective storage containers) in a local area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Funding Partners: Arch Chemicals, Inc.; Gangarosa International Health Foundation; Research Foundation for Health and Environmental Effects
- Program Partners: Dushtha Shashthya Kendra (DSK); National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Tobacco Survey - Indian Dental Students
To conduct a survey of third-year dental students to assess tobacco use and knowledge.
- Funding Partners: American Cancer Society (Washington DC Division)
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Travelers’ Health Educational Activities - Yellow Book
To enhance and upgrade the next edition of the Yellow Book text to improve its indexing, update clinical information, and address other travel safety topics.
- Funding Partners: GlaxoSmithKline, Public Health Foundation
- Program Partners: National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC
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