Category: Cameroon

The Case for Global Health Security

Maureen Bartee

Finding and stopping disease outbreaks at the earliest possible moment no matter where they emerge is important: to reduce illness and death, increase national security, and maintain economic gains made over the previous decades. Disease threats, after all, require only the smallest opening to take root and spread. In today’s tightly connected world a disease Read More >

Posted on by Maureen Bartee
Categories Archive, global health security
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President Obama’s Call to Accelerate Battle Against Malaria Builds on Impressive Gains

A home in Zambia using a bed net to prevent mosquito bites and therefore prevent malaria transmission. Bed nets have been shown to reduce malaria illness, severe disease, and death due to malaria in regions where the disease persists.

Malaria is a public health issue that has always been one of our highest priorities. Tweet This President Obama’s call to arms to end malaria worldwide as announced during his recent State of the Union address and the Administration’s request to increase resources for malaria control, underscore the remarkable progress made in the fight against Read More >

Posted on by Laurence Slutsker, MD, MPH, Director of CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
Categories Archive, infectious disease, malaria, parasitic diseases
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Voices from the Central African Republic: FELTP residents remain committed to strengthening disease surveillance and outbreak response in CAR

CAR refugees forced from their homes by rebels

The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa, bordered by Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west.  CAR is one of the world’s least developed Read More >

Posted on by Dr. Els Mathieu, Resident Advisor, CAR- FELTP1 Comment
Categories Archive, child health, immunization, infectious disease, refugee health
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