India
The CDC Foundation, in collaboration with CDC, seeks to strengthen global health security by supporting the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) to address key gaps in disease detection, antimicrobial resistance monitoring, workforce development and tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment. In partnership with the MOHFW, CDC India has prioritized these areas as urgent, crosscutting activities where additional resources are required to maximize public health impact. Specific public-private partnership resource needs in India include:
Disease Focus –Tuberculosis
NEED
India has the largest tuberculosis (TB) burden in the world with 2.8 million estimated new TB cases and 480,000 TB deaths annually. India also has a rapidly growing multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) problem, accounting for more new cases of MDR-TB than any other country in 2016.
INTERVENTION
Expand the successful clinical telementoring MDR-TB project in Delhi to other Indian states
Conduct a demonstration project to screen and treat household contacts for active and latent TB, then adapt approach to additional geographic sites
Assist the MOHFW in establishing airborne infection control in health care facilities
Strengthen TB surveillance by updating systems and evaluating treatment adherence tools and private sector case reporting
Support Zero TB and TB-Free Cities initiatives
TYPE OF ACTIVITIES
Workforce development
APPROXIMATE FUNDING NEED
$8.4 million
Laboratory–Acute Febrile Illness
NEED
Acute febrile illness affects thousands of people every year in India, leading to severe morbidity and mortality.
INTERVENTION
Establish a tiered diagnostic system for seven acute febrile illness pathogens among hospitals across the country
TYPE OF ACTIVITIES
Laboratory
APPROXIMATE FUNDING NEED
$880,000
Workforce Development–Epidemiology Training
NEED
A key priority of the Global Health Security Agenda and a major strategic objective of CDC India is the development of strong cadres of public health workers.
INTERVENTION
Expand the India Field Epidemiology Training Program to increase country capacity for disease surveillance and outbreak investigation
TYPE OF ACTIVITIES
Workforce development
APPROXIMATE FUNDING NEED
$1.5 million