Spring 2006 Issue
Reaching Around the World to Fight Threats to Health and Safety
In today’s world of increasing globalization, diseases have the potential to spread across the world at warp speed. To protect the health of Americans and to fight diseases and injuries that affect communities worldwide, the CDC Foundation actively builds partnerships between CDC and other groups to support a variety of international health programs.
Whether vaccinating children against polio and measles, empowering women to provide safe drinking water for their families, reducing the threat of rotavirus or training regional disease detectives, the CDC Foundation works to help CDC achieve its goal of “healthy people in a healthy world.”
View an interactive map. Each shaded area on the map represents a country where a CDC Foundation program is active or has been active between 2000 and 2005.