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BACKGROUND
Known and newly emerging diseases pose a serious threat to global health security due to increased global movement of goods and people, changing rural and urban populations, and increased contact between humans and animals. At the same time, increases in antimicrobial resistance threaten the availability of treatment options for common infections. Robust surveillance and diagnostic systems are essential to address these known and emerging threats to public health.
DESCRIPTION
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to control new and existing infectious diseases worldwide. As part of these efforts, the Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project supports countries to detect priority diseases and antimicrobial resistance through building national and sub-national capacities of countries to improve diagnostic networks and surveillance systems. This assistance adheres to the holistic One Health approach, which recognizes that people, animals, and their shared environment are interconnected.
OBJECTIVES
The primary objectives of IDDS are to strengthen detection of priority diseases including tuberculosis (TB); improve identification of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens; and increase real-time surveillance. This will help countries avert the spread of these diseases, prevent, and mitigate outbreaks, and inform interventions to reduce associated mortality and morbidity. IDDS is a cross-cutting project that supports country goals for the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and TB.