Addressing the Global Epidemic: CDC’s International Activities

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) research program is dedicated to advancing biomedical and behavioral science that promotes HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States and worldwide. Research focuses on understanding the dynamics of HIV transmission and on developing and improving prevention technologies and strategies to control the spread of HIV/AIDS and minimize its consequences.
  
  The World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimate that, worldwide, as many as 42 million people have been infected with HIV since the pandemic's onset, and each day 16,000 more become infected. Recognizing the urgency of the epidemic, CDC is committed to HIV/AIDS research within, as well as outside of, U.S. borders. To understand AIDS on a global level, research must address issues and conditions unique to different countries and communities within countries. Many developing countries severely affected by the epidemic lack the research capacity, public health infrastructure, and financial and human resources to respond to the epidemic. CDC's international research underscores the importance of developing and implementing diverse interventions to address issues among varied populations and to do so quickly and cost-effectively.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & Control Global Health HIV Infections/prevention & Control Population Surveillance Public Health
• Series:
  CDC Update
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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