U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the United States' premiere health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency and a global leader in public health. CDC works with states and other partners to provide a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bioterrorism), implement disease prevention strategies, and maintain national health statistics. CDC also guards against international disease transmission, with personnel stationed in more than 25 foreign countries.
PSI’s CDC Grants
PSI has received funding from the CDC for nearly two decades, with support for HIV, TB and safe water programs. In addition to financial support, the CDC has provided technical expertise to strengthen and expand PSI programs. For example, the CDC has developed safe water systems (SWS) to bring purified drinking water to those who need it most. PSI works with the CDC to expand these SWS programs, and the CDC provides technical and quality assurance support to PSI platforms.
In 2004, PSI worked closely with the CDC to develop basic care packages for people living with HIV. Using research conducted by the CDC in Uganda, PSI assisted in the development and procurement of these kits, which include insecticide-treated mosquito nets, SWS, condoms and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis. PSI continues to provide basic care packages in Uganda, coupled with a communications campaign and voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) services for recipients of these packages, to empower HIV-positive people to prevent opportunistic infections, delay the progression of HIV to AIDS and prevent transmission of HIV to others.
The CDC provided a grant in Kenya for PSI to design and execute a mass media campaign encouraging people with signs of tuberculosis (TB) to seek treatment and to educate the general community on the curability of TB, the availability of treatment at public health facilities in Kenya, and the dangers of untreated TB. In South Africa, the CDC supports PSI’s efforts to partner VCT services with TB health care providers to increase the number of TB patients tested for HIV.
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