A Letter from the CDC Director
The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community. Let us mark this occasion by recommitting to our collective efforts to eliminate HIV in America and globally.
World AIDS Day 2019
December 1 is World AIDS Day, and we invite you to join CDC and the global community in marking this observance. This year, the U.S. Government’s theme, Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community, reinforces our commitment to achieving control of the HIV epidemic through partnerships with communities around the world. More than three decades after the first cases were reported, HIV remains a leading cause of death and a health threat to millions worldwide.
With support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)external icon, CDC works side-by-side with ministries of health; private, civil society, and faith-based organizations; and other on-the-ground partners to improve methods for finding, treating, and preventing HIV. CDC is helping drive progress against global HIV/AIDS using targeted treatment and prevention initiatives.
Partnering to End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide
CDC’s Dr. Minesh Shah, an internal medicine physician and a medical officer in the Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, and Matsepo Mary-Anna Dee Mphafi, an HIV peer counselor in Lesotho with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, discuss their inspiring work to fight HIV around the world as part of PEPFAR.
Accelerating Epidemic Control in South Africa
CDC is supporting Siyenza, a results-oriented initiative that’s laser-focused on scaling up proven public health interventions at the clinical level. Siyenza (an isiZulu word meaning “We are doing it”) is rapidly identifying people living with previously undiagnosed HIV, initiating them on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and finding innovative ways to retain them on treatment to achieve suppression of the virus. Read More
Faces from the Frontlines
Learn more about CDC’s critical role in ending HIV and tuberculosis through “Faces from the Frontlines,” an online gallery including stories of individuals at the forefront of the global response to these epidemics.
On the Frontlines
Once an orphan herself, Nthabiseng now serves as a community caregiver to children orphaned by HIV.
Protecting the Unprotected
Once an orphan herself, Nthabiseng now serves as a community caregiver to children orphaned by HIV.
A Family’s Story
Once an orphan herself, Nthabiseng now serves as a community caregiver to children orphaned by HIV.
Additional Resources
To learn more about CDC’s leading role in the global HIV/TB response, please view the additional resources below.
Showcasing CDC Science
A report in the December 2019 issue of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes the status of HIV case surveillance systems – the systematic and continuous process of analyzing critical health data on persons living with HIV – in 39 PEPFAR-supported countries.
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World AIDS Day 2019 on CDC.gov
This year’s theme, Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community, draws attention to the importance of tailoring efforts for, by, and in communities. Through its domestic and global HIV programs, CDC helps communities select the most effective tools to diagnose, treat, prevent, and respond to this disease. Read More
Social Media Cards
Shareable social media graphics that highlight the burden of global HIV/TB, progress to date against these twin epidemics, and CDC’s leadership to help end them.
HIV Fact Sheetpdf icon
An overview of CDC’s global efforts and return on investments in responding to one of the world’s greatest health threats. Read Morepdf icon
PEPFAR
Visit the PEPFAR website to learn how PEPFAR and CDC are leading efforts to control the HIV epidemic worldwide.
HIV Fact Sheet
An overview of CDC’s global efforts and return on investments in responding to one of the world’s greatest health threats.
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Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention