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In more than 45 countries and regions around the world, CDC’s experts are working on the frontlines to help accelerate countries’ efforts to control HIV and eliminate Tuberculosis. They are clinicians, prevention specialists, epidemiologists, health economists, behavioral scientists, and laboratorians. In collaboration with our partners, they are changing the trajectory of these epidemics around the world and keeping people safe at home and abroad. View stories from our experts below.
Adolescent girls and young women in Eastern and Southern Africa are twice as likely to be HIV-positive compared to males in the same age range. In this video, Rose Apondi explains how CDC is reaching young, at-risk girls in Uganda with mentoring and skill-building programs through the DREAMS initiative.
Finding HIV-positive people and helping them know their status is the first global target to control HIV. In this video, Dr. Jonathan Mwangi describes an innovative strategy that CDC is implementing in Kenya to find the remaining undiagnosed people living with HIV, help them learn their HIV-positive status, and link them to treatment services.
In sub-Saharan Africa, men are less likely than women to know their HIV status, seek life-saving HIV treatment, and reach viral suppression. In this video, Puleng Ramphalla discusses the evidence-based approaches that CDC is using to reach more men at risk for HIV with treatment and prevention in Lesotho.
CDC has developed and is evaluating a simple, rapid test to simultaneously diagnose HIV and identify whether an infection is recent. In this video, Dr. Bharat Parekh describes how this test is helping CDC and partners identify HIV hotspots and deploy responses in real-time to accelerate controlling the HIV epidemic.
Global guidelines recommend viral load testing – a measure of the amount of HIV virus in the blood – as a means to monitor the health of people living with HIV, and who are receiving life-saving antiretroviral treatment. In this video, Dr. Sudhir Bunga describes the importance of viral load testing in measuring an individual’s response to HIV treatment.
HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) are the two most deadly infectious diseases worldwide. These two epidemics are interconnected, as TB is the leading cause of death for people living with HIV. In this video, Dr. Abraham Katana explains how CDC is addressing each of these epidemics in Kenya.
CDC, working in collaboration in partners, is maximizing the value of each dollar spent by leading innovative approaches to accelerate the impact and efficiency of HIV and TB programs across the globe. In this video, Valerie Naglich explains how CDC is driving these efforts.
CDC’s experts play a key role in helping to protect the world from both HIV and TB and save lives. In this video, Hiari Imara, shares her personal experience in speaking to young students about her work in fighting HIV.
Collaboration with partners and Ministries of Health is critical to CDC’s efforts to end the HIV and TB epidemics, and help countries effectively respond to public health challenges now and in the future. In this video, Dr. Robert Swayzer explains how these efforts are being implemented in Namibia.
Accelerating progress towards HIV epidemic control requires achieving higher results among the populations who are most at risk for transmitting and acquiring HIV. In this video, Saira Qureshi explains how CDC is accelerating countries’ efforts to reach young women and girls – among the most severely affected groups and other key populations.
CDC’s experts on the ground work hand-in-hand with host country governments around the globe to improve public health by developing and expanding innovative strategies to control the HIV and TB epidemics. In this video, Dr. Simon Agolory shares how one innovation – Project Echo – is helping to save more lives.
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