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Created on December 3, 2012, this photograph was captured by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Communication Specialist, Alan Janssen, MSPH, while he was in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reviewing the methods, and implementation of the region's measles and polio vaccination programs. This scene was captured outside a school, which was serving as a vaccination staging ground, and depicts a group of children in the background, who having received their own vaccinations, were waiting for their siblings to finish the process, and meet them outside. In the foreground, a member of the social mobilization team stopped for this quick snapshot.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborate with the Government of India, Indian institutions, and international organizations to address a wide range of infectious, and non-communicable diseases. Together the CDC works to strengthen India’s health system to reach national and international goals. CDC opened the first India office in 2001, to support the Life Initiative for HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Today CDC maintains offices in New Delhi and Hyderabad, with staff who supports initiatives originating in the Division of Global Health Protection, the Global Immunization Division, the Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, and the Influenza Program. |
