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Global Health
CDC assists other countries and collaborates with international
agencies (e.g., WHO, UNICEF, CARE) on their programs to prevent chronic
disease and promote healthful behavior. CDC provides direct assignees at
the World Bank, WHO, and regions throughout the world. In 2001, CDC
- Developed a “Standards for Documentation” instrument to be used
in systematically collecting data on key features of heart health
initiatives that have been implemented in the G8 countries (Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the
United States), in cooperation with partner coordinating centers in
these countries.
- Proposed a model for a sustainable, coordinated cardiovascular
disease prevention, risk factor surveillance, and appropriate capacity
building in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
- Through our partnership with the International Society on
Hypertension in Blacks, worked on the 18th Annual International
Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension in Blacks to be held in
Ghana, June 2003.
- Provided training in reproductive health epidemiology to health care
providers and researchers in three nations: Costa Rica, Mexico, and
South Africa.
- Provided assistance to nations in Latin America, the Caribbean, and
Eastern Europe to conduct population-based surveys on reproductive
health, including surveys with a special focus on unintended
pregnancy, sexual behaviors and attitudes, and infant and maternal
morbidity and mortality. Nations that received CDC assistance were
Guatemala, Albania, Azerbaijan, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Republic of
Georgia, Paraguay, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ecuador, Belize, and
Honduras.
- Responded to a request from the People’s Republic of China to
assist the State Family Planning Commission in training, program
evaluation, and data analysis.
- Continued collaboration with the World Health Organization, the
United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and more than 30 other
organizations to promote reproductive health for refugees. CDC is part
of the Inter-Agency Working Group for Reproductive Health for
Refugees. Through this partnership, CDC conducted studies on women’s
reproductive health in refugee camps and camps for internally
displaced people in Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and the Republic of Georgia.
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