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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
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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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Featured Program:
Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
As one of a number of partners in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the CDC Foundation works with experts at CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) to implement the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). GATS monitors adult tobacco use and the effectiveness of tobacco control measures among adults in 14 countries that account for approximately two-thirds of the world’s smokers. 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, 2008 and May 1, 2009.)
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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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Bed Nets for Children
To prevent the spread of malaria by distributing insecticide-treated bed nets to pregnant women and children in Africa who are most at risk for contacting and dying from malaria.
- Funding Partners: multiple individuals and organizations
- Program Partners: Children for Children; Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Bed Nets Durability Study - Togo
To determine the insecticide loss and physical deterioration rates of household insecticide-treated bed nets distributed in Togo.
- 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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Bed Nets Survey - Sierra Leone
To measurement and evaluate the coverage and usage of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets in Sierra Leone.
- Funding Partners:
The Canadian Red Cross Society
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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Bed Nets Usage and Mortality - Togo
To measure the usage of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed ents and their impact on mortality in Togo.
- Funding Partners:
The Canadian Red Cross Society
- Program Partners: World Health Organization, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC
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CDC Pneumonia ADIP Collaborations
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:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Central Asia Blood System Evaluation
To evaluate the blood donor recruitment system, the quality of laboratory screening procedures for blood donations, and the current guidelines for the clinical use of blood components in four countries in central Asia. Â
- Funding Partners:
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Program Partners: Central Asia AIDS Project, The World Bank Group, Coordinating Office for Global Health, 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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Diarrheal Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries
To estimate the population-based burden, microbiologic etimology and adverse clinical consequences of severe diarrhea among children 0-59 months of age in study sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Funding Partners: University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Program Partners: Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Dissemination and Use of Health Surveillance Data
To support a special forum showcasing best practices and innovative techniques used by CDC and state, local and international health partners to display, disseminate and use public health surveillance data.
- Funding Partners: Health Metrics Network
- Program Partners: Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Endowment for Global Health Priorities
In the Fall of 1999, a group of CDC employees and retirees who understood the challenges of doing public health work in developing countries worked with the CDC Foundation to create an endowed fund to address global health issues. The fund now provides a source of flexible funding to meet critical or emergency needs in the field that cannot easily be met through usual government channels.
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Evaluation of Malaria Specimen Bank
To analyze blood samples to determine what species of human malaria parasites are present in the specimens as part of an evaluation of a global malaria specimen bank.
- Funding Partners:
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric 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; National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases, CDC
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Gangarosa Endowment for Safe Water
More than 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe water, and every year, more than 2 million people around the world die of diseases they contract from contaminated water. Reflecting a lifelong commitment to provide safe water around the world, Dr. Eugene Gangarosa and his wife, Rose, established the Gangarosa Endowment for Safe Water in May 2000 to provide an ongoing source of support for CDC's safe water initiatives.
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Global Adult Tobacco Survey
To create, as a component of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, a standard global surveillance system to monitor adult tobacco use and critical tobacco control measures to inform, track and implement national and global programs and policies.
- Funding Partners: Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Program Partners: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; World Health Organization; World Lung Foundation; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Global Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain Bank and Database
To accumulate an extensive, diverse and well-characterized collection of pneumococcal isolates that cause invasive disease and pneumonia, recovered primarily from children in developing countries.
- Funding Partners: Emory University
- Program Partners: Johns Hopkins University; New York Medical College; P.A.T.H.; Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, 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: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, World Health Organization, 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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Influenza Surveillance - Kyrgyz Republic
To strengthen surveillance for Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), improve the control of seasonal Influenza, and upgrade the National Virology Laboratory in the Kyrgyz Republic.
- Funding Partners:
Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Processing Industry of the
Kyrgyz Republic
- Program Partners: World Bank; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, 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: AkzoNobel N.V.; Bresky Foundation; Bühler Group; Cargill Inc.; Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Hexagon Nutrition Pvt. Ltd.; Höganäs AB; IAOM; Industrial Metal Powders; Micronutrient Initiative; Navkar bio-chem; UNICEF
- Program Partners: Australian Wheat Board; Buhler Industries Inc.; Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.; General Mills, Inc.; InterFlour; Modern Flour Mills and Macaroni Factories, Co.; World Health Organization; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Intimate Partner Violence Prevention in Southeast Asia
To support intimate partner violence prevention efforts in Southeast Asia through research, surveillence and programmatic activities.
- Funding Partners:
Rubina Imtiaz-Andersen
- Program Partners: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 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: Jomo Kenyatta University; Kenya Ministry of Health; Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Malaria in Pregnancy
To collaborate with a consortium of research institutions to provide a sound scientific evidence base for new interventions and strategies to reduce the adverse effects of malaria in pregnancy in Latin America and to identify the optimal combination of tools needed to control disease transmission.
- Funding Partners: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases , CDC
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Louise Martin, D.V.M., M.S., EIS ‘85 Endowed Memorial Scholarship
When a terrorist bomb exploded at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998, Mary Louise Martin was among the 12 Americans and more than 200 Kenyans killed. In her memory, friends and colleagues established the Louise Martin, D.V.M., M.S. EIS '85 Memorial Scholarship Endowment to provide scholarships for disadvantaged young women in Kenya to attend a national school. Beyond just a diploma, educated women in Kenya are more likely to have higher paying jobs, an improved standard of living, reduced infant and maternal mortality, increased life expectancy, improved status in the family and the community, higher self-esteem, and an increased knowledge of individual rights. The average cost for one girl's scholarship is about $1,000 annually.
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Micronutrient Sprinkles Study - Kenya
To assess the acceptability, effectiveness and safety of micronutrient sprinkles provided to young children in Nyanza Province, Kenya.
- Funding Partners:
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
- Program Partners: Kenya Medical Research Institute; Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP); Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Mobilizing CDC's Global Health Force
To provide funding and facilitate the purchase of vehicles to transport critical public health supplies, personnel and equipment to regions where they are needed most.
- Funding Partners:
GM Foundation
- Program Partners: Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC
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Phones for Health
To leverage mobile technology to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases in 10 developing countries supported by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
- Funding Partners:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Motorola Foundation, Voxiva
- Program Partners: ADP, Inc.; MTN; U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR);
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
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Polio Eradication Heroes Fund
The Polio Eradication Heroes Fund recognizes health workers and volunteers who have incurred serious injury or lost their lives as a direct consequence of their participation in polio eradication activities. The families of the workers, who have been the victims of automobile crashes, military conflicts and other life-threatening events, receive a certificate recognizing the victim’s heroic commitment to polio eradication and a cash tribute.
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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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Prevention and Control of Breast Cancer in Developing Countries
To systematically review the literature on effective approaches for breast cancer prevention and control and treatment in limited-resource countries and to estimate the economic burden of breast cancer in such settings in order to provide useful information for planning and developing breast cancer control policy.
- Funding Partners: Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Program Partners: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Reducing HIV Acquisition through PrEP - Uganda
To assess, through clinical trials in Uganda, the safety and efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir and emtricitabine/tenofovir in reducing HIV acquisition.
- Funding Partners: University of Washington
- Program Partners: The AIDS Support Organization - Mbale and Tororo, Uganda; National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, CDC
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Rotavirus Breast Milk Analysis
To collect breast milk from mothers in developing countries with infants less than 6 months of age in order to examine levels of antibody response to rotavirus and compare the inhibitory effect of maternal antibody on vaccine strains.
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- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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To allow countries, primarily in Asia and Africa, to continue rotavirus surveillance activities in anticipation of the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine.
- Funding Partners: GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals; Merck & Co., Inc.
- Program Partners: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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School Hand Hygiene in China, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines
To conduct safe water and hygiene programs in schools throughout China, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines.
- Funding Partners: The Procter & Gamble Company
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases , CDC
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Strengthening Disease Surveillance and Response in Central Africa
To strengthen disease surveillance and response programs in Central African countries.
- Funding Partners: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Program Partners: World Health Organization; Coordinating Office for Global Health, CDC; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Trachoma and Lymphatic Filariasis in Mali
To research programs that will contribute to the development of a fully integrated, sustainable and scalable comprehensive control program for trachoma and lymphatic filariasis in Mali.
- Funding Partners: International Tachoma Initiative
- Program Partners: National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases , CDC
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