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CDC Global Health Story Highlights of 2024
Throughout 2024, CDC has been on the frontlines tackling the world's top infectious diseases. Using our Global Health Strategic Framework as a guide, we strengthen public health systems, protect Americans by stopping outbreaks at the source, build global health security, and support health diplomacy to save lives around the globe.
From preventing the spread of deadly outbreaks to developing new vaccines against harmful diseases, our stories illustrate the impact of CDC’s global health efforts.
New Measles and Malaria Vaccines Can Save Lives in the U.S. and Globally
Although measles and malaria have been declared eliminated in the United States, outbreaks still happen. Because of our global investments in research and innovation, we now have new types of vaccines to stop measles and malaria and protect communities everywhere.
Speeding Outbreak Response in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, CDC experts are helping the country use the 7-1-7 global framework to speed up outbreak detection and response.
Bringing Novel HIV Prevention to Ukraine
CDC Ukraine partnered across agencies to adapt services to reach those at risk for and living with HIV and minimize interruptions in care. This work paid off in remarkable ways.
A TB-Free India: Stopping TB before it Spreads
CDC, USAID, the Society for Health Allied Research & Education India (SHARE INDIA), and India's National TB Elimination Program joined forces to implement the "TB Mukt Bharat (TB Free-India) Infection Prevention and Control" project as part of a larger initiative to bring the country one step closer to ending TB.
Infection Prevention and Control Reduces Antimicrobial-Resistant Threat in Vietnam
With CDC support, a hospital in Vietnam has established infection prevention and control measures to help stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), identified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat.
First Case of Avian Influenza in Ecuador
After Ecuador reported its first-ever human case of avian influenza A (H5N1 bird flu), public health professionals in CDC's Field Epidemiology Training Program and the Global Laboratory Leadership Programme played a crucial role in identifying and containing the illness. Samples were sent to the WHO Collaborating Center for Influenza in Atlanta where CDC verified that existing candidate vaccine viruses were closely related to the identified H5 virus.
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