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Since its launch, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has helped save more than 17 million lives. As a key implementing agency of PEPFAR, CDC is at the forefront of the global response to HIV – bringing scientific know-how and on-the-ground expertise to bear in the fight against one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. At CDC, the core of our expertise is our people – the experts, partners and changemakers transforming the global HIV epidemic. These are their stories – and their impact. Photo By: Thom Pierce October 2018

In today’s tightly connected world, a disease threat anywhere is a disease threat everywhere.

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is a global effort to strengthen the world’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Over the course of the first 5 years of GHSA implementation, CDC-supported countries have strengthened public health readiness to contain outbreaks at their source. Threats remain, and sustained focus on global health security is critical to protecting the United States and the world from dangerous diseases and outbreaks.

The impact of mass drug administration and progress towards elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF), a debilitating neglected tropical disease (NTD), is measured by community surveys. CDC was instrumental in developing the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) monitoring guidelines for LF elimination efforts and has been providing technical assistance around the world ever since. This photo shows children in Haiti whose blood had been tested at one of the schools where a survey was conducted. Credit: Kimberly Won/CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under the U.S. Mission to Tanzania, established an office in 2001 to support HIV/AIDS prevention, and expanded through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2003. CDC works in Tanzania to strengthen tuberculosis prevention efforts for people living with HIV; enhance laboratory, surveillance, and workforce capacity to respond to disease outbreaks through the Global Health Security Agenda; and implement interventions for malaria prevention and control under the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative.

From preparing and responding to Ebola in Uganda to preventing the spread of waterborne diseases in Bangladeshi refugee camps, these stories offer a glimpse into the efforts, progress, and impact of CDC’s global work.