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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
To learn more about CDC’s leading role in the global HIV/TB response, please view the additional resources below.
Visit the PEPFAR website to learn how PEPFAR and CDC are leading efforts to control the HIV epidemic worldwide.
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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