Category: President’s Malaria Initiative
President Obama’s Call to Accelerate Battle Against Malaria Builds on Impressive Gains
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 byCDC Poised to Answer President Obama’s Call to End Malaria
In his State of the Union address January 12, President Obama issued an emphatic call to arms to end malaria worldwide. Here, at CDC, we know that attacking malaria and moving aggressively to eliminate a disease that killed 438,000 people last year worldwide is a goal worthy of its mention in the State of the Read More >
Posted on by 1 CommentDPDx: 15 Years of Strengthening Laboratory Capacity for Parasitic Disease Diagnosis
The inquiries and images come from almost every state in the United States, and often with a sense of urgency. Still others arrive from Argentina and Germany, Italy, Japan, China, New Zealand, India—and dozens more countries around the globe. Each time the question for CDC’s parasite identification laboratory, known as DPDx, is the same: Read More >
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