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Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.
Description:
CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM) is guided by the same strategic framework that drives all of CDC’s activities: use science and innovation to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats.

Within that broad framework, DPDM focuses on diseases caused by parasites, including malaria, cyclosporiasis, Chagas disease, and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), among dozens of others.

Spread by the bite of an infected mosquito, triatomine bug, or blackfly, or perhaps from eating contaminated produce or passed from a mother to her baby, parasitic diseases are responsible for an enormous global burden of illness, disability, and death. In 2019, there were 229 million new malaria infections worldwide and 409,000 deaths, many of those children under five years of age. NTDs, including onchocerciasis, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis (LF), affect more than one billion people globally.

However, despite their burden on global health, parasitic diseases are often overlooked or are not well known.

DPDM serves as the country’s—and often the world’s—last resort when it comes to parasitic disease diagnosis and treatment. When U.S. states or other countries lack the capacity to diagnose a rarely seen parasitic disease such as cysticercosis or African trypanosomiasis, they rely on DPDM to make the proper diagnosis. Just as important as getting the diagnoses right are DPDM’s efforts to educate public health partners, healthcare providers, and the American people about the risks posed by parasitic diseases.

Our Strategic Priorities for 2021–2025 will help guide DPDM’s core activities that are essential for the control of parasitic diseases in the United States and around the world. For the next four years, DPDM will prioritize activities that build on past and current achievements to maximize our impact.

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Background and Introduction -- Vision, Mission, and Values -- Strategic Goals: Strategic Goal 1: Ensure prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of parasitic diseases in the United States; Strategic Goal 2: Reduce the Global Burden of Malaria; Strategic Goal 3: Reduce the Global Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) -- The United States and Global Health Context.
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Global Health Malaria/prevention & Control Neglected Diseases/prevention & Control Parasitic Diseases/prevention & Control Program Development
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Center for Global Health (U.S.), Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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