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Reducing the Threat
For decades, the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) has been a leader in the control and
prevention of infectious diseases as part of long standing
efforts in child
survival, maternal
health and HIV/AIDS.
To further strengthen USAID's ability to respond to the
increasing threat of new and re-emerging infectious diseases,
the Agency launched an Infectious
Disease Initiative [PDF, 193K] in 1998 with the support
of the U.S. Congress. The Initiative focuses on preventing
diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, while simultaneously
strengthening the treatment and control programs that exist
in the health care system and focusing on cross-cutting
issues of building surveillance capacity and addressing
antimicrobial resistance.
This initiative builds on USAID's long standing efforts
to address acute respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases,
vaccine preventable diseases (including polio) and malaria
in children. Through USAID, the U.S. government is the world's
largest donor, supporting activities in developing countries
for the control, prevention, and mitigation of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic.
USAID's Infectious Disease Initiative
targets a number of key priority areas:
- Development and implementation of strategies and interventions
to understand, contain and respond to the development
and spread of antimicrobial
resistance
- Sustainable reduction in incidence
of
tuberculosis among key populations in selected
countries
- Sustainable reduction of deaths
due to malaria
and incidence of other infectious diseases of major public
health importance among key populations in selected countries
- Improvement in the capacity of
selected countries to obtain and use good quality data
for surveillance
and effective response to infectious diseases
USAID's
Strategy to Prevent and Control Infectious Diseases
[PDF, 193K]
USAID's
Infectious Diseases Funding FY1998-2002
USAID's
Infectious Diseases Funding by Region FY2002
USAID's Infectious Diseases Funding by Program Category and Country FY2002
65 Countries Receiving USAID Assistance for Infectious Diseases
USAID's
Child Survival and Health Guidance, FY 2003 Update [MS
Word , 604K]
USAID's Infectious
Diseases Programs
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