CDC's Response to Ending Neglect
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Who Will Lead? - CDC's Response
In collaboration with divisions in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, the Public Health Practice Program Office, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Division of TB Elimination of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, is the functional equivalent of a national TB program in the United States.47 As such, CDC is the federal government's lead agency for TB prevention, control, and elimination. Several other federal agencies share crucial roles in contributing to TB prevention and control and its eventual elimination. For example, the FDA approves new drugs and diagnostics and ensures drug quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) facilitate access to and financing of health care, and the NIH conducts and supports biomedical research and health care worker training. These and several other agencies form part of the Federal TB Task Force, the members of which coordinate federal TB activities in the United States.
Although current activities to control TB are yielding significant results nationwide, CDC recognizes that TB elimination will require sustained effort, long-term commitment, new tools, and strong partnerships with other federal health agencies and state and local health departments. This document, CDC's Response to Ending Neglect, describes CDC's new strategy for achieving TB elimination, taking into account the challenges, advances, and collaborations of the past and building on them.
The plan reflects the scientific, programmatic, and health-sector developments of the last decade and supersedes the 1989 Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States. The response details the CDC priority activities required for the elimination of TB in the United States in the context of the recommendations issued by the IOM report Ending Neglect and is organized around six goals and corresponding objectives (Table 1):
- Maintain control of TB
- Accelerate the decline
- Develop new tools
- Increase involvement in global efforts
- Mobilize and sustain support
- Track progress toward elimination
CDC's Response to Ending Neglect complements a more comprehensive federal plan to respond to the IOM's recommendations. Implementation of these plans should set in motion the activities needed to arrest TB in the United States.
Table 1. CDC's Response to Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States. Summary of Goals and Objectives
Goal I: Maintain control of TBObjectives:
Goal II: Accelerate the declineObjectives:
Goal III: Develop new toolsObjectives:
Goal IV: Increase involvement in global effortsObjectives:
Goal V: Mobilize and sustain public supportObjectives:
Goal VI: Track progress toward eliminationObjectives:
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