CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

its doors and occupied one floor of a small building

in Atlanta. Its primary mission was simple yet highly challenging: prevent malaria from spreading across the nation. Armed with a budget of only $10 million and fewer than 400 employees, the agency’s early challenges included obtaining enough trucks, sprayers, and shovels necessary to wage war on mosquitoes.

HISTORY

populations globally.
2.health security: protect americans and population across the globe

by strenthening global public health prevention , detection, and response.

GOALS

assistance to host governments, working through its strong partnerships with

Ministries of Health and local and international partners to implement integrated HIV/AIDS clinical and preventive services and systems; develop and strengthen laboratory services; and provide epidemiologic science, informatics, and research support to develop sustainable public health systems in resource-constrained countries.

STRUCTURE

throughout the world by providing diagnostic, consultative, and epidemiologic services

and training.

2.Division of parasitic disease and malaria(DPDM):

the health and improve the well-being of people globally by

building public health capacity to prevent disease, disability and death from communicable and non-communicable diseases.

3.Division of global health protection(DGHP):

other public and private partners to control vaccine-preventable diseases around

the world.

4.GLOBAL IMMUNIZATION DIVISION(GID)

to state and local health departments.
Program level: $7.3 billion
35% Protecting

Americans from Infectious Diseases
22% Preventing the Leading Causes of Disease, Disability and Death
12% Protecting Americans from Natural & Bioterrorism Threats

FINANCE

nationwide.
Improved the quality of overseas medical exam data.
Prevented public health

threats before they could spreads in united states.
Enhanced international travel disease survillance systems.

Achievements

office in India in 2001 with an initial focus on

HIV/ AIDS prevention. Today, CDC has a broader scope and in addition to its headquarters in New Delhi maintains a presence in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Relation with INDIA