CDC Core Global Programs Leveraged for COVID-19

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CDC core global programs leveraged for COVID-19 response

• In early 2020, CDC country offices leveraged available assets toward the COVID-19 response.
• 1,800+ CDC staff serving across 60+ countries.

40 YEARS of Field Epidemiology Training Programs

• Many FETP graduates support and coordinate national country COVID-19 responses.
• OVER 80 countries with CDC supported FETP frontline, intermediate, or advanced programs.
• 20,500 trained disease detectives.

18 YEARS of U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief*

• 20,000 health facilities.
• 73% of CDC’s overseas staff.
• 2,000 laboratories.
• *CDC’s longstanding investments through PEPFAR – in laboratory science, in surveillance and health information systems, in building healthcare workforce and community capacity – better prepared us to respond to COVID-19 in the countries where we work.

23 YEARS of STOP Program (STOP)

• 23 years supporting polio eradication and building immunization capacity worldwide.
• 270 STOP Program consultants worked on COVID-19 in 47 countries.
• 119,000 country public health workers trained by STOP consultants on COVID-19 response activities.

Global Influenza Surveillance and Research Platforms

• 23 special COVID-19 projects in 21 COUNTRIES, including COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness evaluations.
• More than 1,900 Influenza SARS-CoV-2 Multiplex Assay kits to 151 laboratories in 134 countries, corresponding to 960,000+ tests.
• 35 staff in 12 countries support respiratory disease surveillance and programs.