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What CDC Is Doing
For more than 60 years, CDC has used its scientific expertise to help people throughout the world live healthier, safer, longer lives. CDC's Center for Global Health coordinates and manages the agency's resources and expertise to address global challenges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, emergency and refugee health, non-communicable diseases, injuries, and more.
HIV/AIDS
Prevention, Care & Treatment, Lab, Evaluation
Malaria
Control, Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Travel
Global Disease Detection
Preparedness, Investigation, Response
Health Systems Strengthening
Surveillance, Response, Workforce Development, Informatics
Polio
Vaccination, Eradication, Lab Networks, Partnerships
Parasitic Diseases
Control, Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Travel
The Future of Global Immunizations: Will the Promise of Vaccines Be Fulfilled?
NEW! CDC is involved in one of the most effective of all global public health missions—vaccination against deadly diseases. These efforts reduce the risk for disease to spread across other countries; ultimately, they protect Americans from sickness and death caused by vaccine-preventable diseases that are acquired overseas and carried into the United States by travelers. In the past two decades, immunization has prevented an estimated 20 million deaths worldwide from vaccine-preventable diseases. New vaccines currently under development have the potential to prevent millions of additional deaths.
To learn about some of the challenges facing organizations involved in global vaccines, please view the newly published Center for Strategic and International Studies article authored by Dr. Steve Cochi.
Posted Dec 9, 2011
Where We Work
CDC works in partnership with international organizations in more than 60 countries.
CDC Director at UN Foundation
NEW! Dr. Tom Frieden presented “Why Global Health is Good for America” at a UN Foundation Dinner Nov 17, 2011.
Watch his speech
Posted Nov 28, 2011
CDC Stories Around the World
PMTCT: A Winnable Battle in South Africa
At the 5th South African AIDS Conference in June in Durban, South Africa, South African and CDC researchers presented on new evidence that the country is winning the fight against the HIV and AIDS epidemic. According to their national survey results, the mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) rate for HIV is 3.5% and virtually eliminating this form of HIV transmission is therefore within reach by 2015 with intensified efforts…read more »
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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