| Organization name: | Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| Organization type: | Governmental Agency (Other) |
| Website: | http://www.cdc.gov/tb |
| Description: | Mission Statement
The mission of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) is to promote health and quality of life by preventing, controlling, and eventually eliminating tuberculosis from the United States, and by collaborating with other countries and international partners in controlling tuberculosis world-wide.
Vision Statement
To improve the quality of tuberculosis (TB) control programs internationally and among foreign-born in the US, and provide leadership and coordination of CDC activities, in countries with a high burden of TB or having a strategic interest for TB control efforts in the U.S.
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| Contact name: | Dr Eugene McCray, Bryan Kim |
| Contact email: | ecm1@cdc.gov; bdk9@cdc.gov |
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| Technical focus area(s): |
Multi- and Extensively Drug Resistant TB (MDR/XDR-TB)
TB/HIV co-infection
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| Current projects with TB component: | MDR TB
o Preserving the Effectiveness of TB Treatment with second-line drugs (PETTS)
o Study of Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children: evaluation of 178 cases from 4 low-resource countries
o Evaluation of rapid MDR TB diagnostics
o DOTS-Plus implementation, Russia
o PARTNERS MDR TB project, Peru
o Standardized MDR TB program, South Africa
TB/HIV
o Conduct of a 2000-participant clinical trial to determine the optimal duration of isoniazid TB preventive therapy in HIV-infected adults in Botswana
o Improving Diagnosis of TB in HIV-Infected Persons (ID-TB/HIV) Study in Southeast Asia
o WHO-CDC TB screening meta-analysis
o Pilot of home-based care worker TB symptom screening of PLWHA in South Africa
o Evaluation of TB screening approaches among children with HIV infection in Rwanda
o Study of Impact of ART and CPT on survival of patients with TB and HIV in Cambodia
o TB/HIV Observational Study in Thailand
Program Strengthening and Epidemiology
o TA and training to build sustainable capacity within National Tuberculosis Programs (e.g., Operational Research Training)
o Evaluation of new tools to improve anti-TB drug quality, diagnostics and lab quality
o TB Impact Measurement
o DOTS implementation and Evaluation (Participation in TB CAP; Member of WHO DEWG and various subgroups)
Infection Control
o IC Guidelines development
o TA support (Conducted IC situation assessments in multiple countries (India, Vietnam, Namibia, FSEs)
o Training (Supported IC training in multiple countries)
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| Countries with TB-related work currently underway: |
Albania
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Cambodia
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Guyana
India
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lesotho
Lithuania
Malawi
Mexico
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Nigeria
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Russian Federation
Rwanda
South Africa
Tajikistan
Thailand
Uganda
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Viet Nam
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| List of countries in which you have offices: |
Botswana
Thailand
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| Illustrative list of TA providers and areas of expertise: | N/A. Our branch, the International Research and Programs Branch in the Division of TB Elimination, CDC, has a limited number of staff that are potentially available for assignments. However, the engagement of my staff in assignments will need to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis |
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| Date created: | 30 September 2009 10:57 |
| Date last modified: | 18 March 2013 14:08 |
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