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This is really a report of progress. Co-operation of the Government with state health departments has produced such results that the backward step of discontinuance can never be taken. The problem of preventing venereal disease has become one of the principal phases of preventive medicine and physicians and health officers can not possibly longer remain indifferent.

From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations have been evidence-based, scalable, and adaptable in multiple settings. Better and more equitable health care is the shared responsibility of governments and international agencies, public and private sectors, and societies and individuals, and all of these partners have been involved in the development of the series. Volume 3, Cancer, presents the complex patterns of cancer incidence and death around the world and evidence on effective and cost-effective ways to control cancers. The DCP3 evaluation of cancer will indicate where cancer treatment is ineffective and wasteful, and offer alternative cancer care packages that are cost-effective and suited to low-resource settings.

"January 23, 1998." ; Reprinted from the U.S. government publication. "The material contained within is in the public domain."--verso of title page. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-116). ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Under the direction of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator's Office, the HHS/CDC Global AIDS Program (GAP) is a partner in the unified U.S. Government (USG) effort to implement the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (the Emergency Plan). As part of this effort, GAP helps resource-constrained countries prevent HIV infection; improve treatment, care, and support for people living with HIV; and build capacity and infrastructure to address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic." ; Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ; Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 7, 2007). ; Mode of access: Internet from the CDC web site. Address as of 8/7/07: http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/docs/2005RevisedGAPFACTSHEET.pdf; current access available via PURL.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--CDC--traces its roots to an organization established in the southeastern United States during World War II to prevent malaria among personnel training on U.S. military bases. On July 1, 1996, CDC formally celebrates its 50th anniversary as a federal agency dedicated to ensuring the public's health through close cooperation with state and local health departments and with other organizations committed to improving health in the United States and throughout the world. To commemorate this anniversary, this issue of MMWR presents reports that offer special perspectives: a historical overview of CDC; national morbidity data from June 8, 1946, and June 22, 1996; reprints of articles published in CDC's earlier years--reports about an outbreak of smallpox and an outbreak of pentachlorophenol poisoning in newborn infants; and information resources about CDC. In addition, this issue reports the recent historic decision by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to designate the prevalence of cigarette smoking as a notifiable condition for national public health surveillance. A "latebreaking" report summarizes the investigation of a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora (an emerging pathogen) infection and underscores the continuing need to address new public health threats. Subsequent issues of MMWR this year may include reprints of selected reports of historical interest. ; History of CDC -- Notifiable disease surveillance and notifiable disease statistics--United States, June 1946 and June 1996 -- Addition of prevalence of cigarette smoking as a nationally notifiable condition-- June 1996 -- Smallpox--Stockholm, Sweden, 1963 -- Pentachlorophenol poisoning in newborn infants--St. Louis, Missouri, 1967 -- Outbreaks of Cyclospora cayetanensis Infection--United States, 1996 -- Resources about CDC ; "June 28, 1996."

"A new strategic plan for HIV prevention and control is timely and essential in guiding our efforts to more effectively address HIV infection and AIDS at home and abroad. CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005 lays out the blueprint for those actions. CDC looks forward to working in a collegial way with our many partners to protect people's health by enhancing the effect of mutually conducted HIV/AIDS efforts throughout the Nation and the world." - p. 1 ; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services features the full text of the January 2001 report entitled "HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005." The text is available in PDF format. The CDC's goal for HIV prevention is to reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States from an estimated 40,000 to 20,000 per year by 2005, focusing on eliminating racial and ethic disparities in new HIV infections. ; Title from cover. ; "January 2001." ; Also available through the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (402.49 KB, 82 p.) (accessed 2009 Feb. 23).

"This plan extends the HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Through 2005 (2001 Plan) published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2001. The short-term goal, milestones, and accompanying objectives are based on general and specific recommendations from the CDC and HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHAC), formerly known as the Advisory Committee for HIV and STD Prevention. The HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010 ( Extended Plan), which will serve as CDC's strategic guide for HIV prevention through 2010, includes a short-term goal of reducing new HIV infections by 5 percent per year or at least 10 percent by the end of 2010. To achieve this goal, the Extended Plan includes an expanded set of objectives and performance indicators that make priorities more explicit and ensure that key issues are effectively addressed. Twelve new objectives have been added, 20 existing objectives have been modified, and one objective was deleted (42 objectives total, compared to 27 in the 2001 Plan). The Extended Plan also incorporates 17 additional performance indicators (25 total, compared to 11 previously)." p. 2-3 ; Introduction -- Background of the CDC HIV Prevention Strategic Plan, 2001-2005 -- CDC Activities to Implement the 2001-2005 HIV Prevention Strategic Plan -- CHAC Strategic Plan Workgroup -- CDC Response to CHAC Recommendations and Major Considerations of the Plan -- Looking Ahead: The Future of HIV Prevention Strategic Planning at CDC -- Goals and Objectives of the CDC HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010 -- HIV Prevention Strategic Plan Performance Indicators -- Appendix 1 : November 2006 CHAC Meeting Minutes -- Appendix 2 : List of CHAC Strategic Plan Workgroup Members -- Appendix 3 - CDC Summary Report of Activities Addressing Plan (submitted to CHAC) -- Appendix 4 : Draft Report from CHAC Strategic Plan Workgroup ; Title from cover. ; "October 2007" ; Also available via the World Wide Web.

A significant part of CDC's mission is to provide Americans with the information they need every day to live long, healthy, and happy lives. To that end, the agency has developed the following products and services to help people improve their own health by preventing disease and injury and promoting healthy lifestyles. ; About the CDC -- Services for individuals -- Services for children and adolescents -- Services for health-care providers -- Services for other professionals. -- Services for individuals or organizationsimplementing public health programs -- Other useful sources for CDC information ; "A publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry." ; "CS119501" ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Iron deficiency is the most common known form of nutritional deficiency. Its prevalence is highest among young children and women of childbearing age (particularly pregnant women). In children, iron deficiency causes developmental delays and behavioral disturbances, and in pregnant women, it increases the risk for a preterm delivery and delivering a low-birthweight baby. In the past three decades, increased iron intake among infants has resulted in a decline in childhood iron-deficiency anemia in the United States. As a consequence, the use of screening tests for anemia has become a less efficient means of detecting iron deficiency in some populations. For women of childbearing age, iron deficiency has remained prevalent. To address the changing epidemiology of iron deficiency in the United States, CDC staff in consultation with experts developed new recommendations for use by primary health-care providers to prevent, detect, and treat iron deficiency. These recommendations update the 1989 "CDC Criteria for Anemia in Children and Childbearing-Aged Women" (MMWR 1989;38(22):400-4) and are the first comprehensive CDC recommendations to prevent and control iron deficiency. CDC emphasizes sound iron nutrition for infants and young children, screening for anemia among women of childbearing age, and the importance of low-dose iron supplementation for pregnant women." - p. 1 ; April 3, 1998 ; "The following CDC staff prepared this report: Ray Yip, M. Ibrahim Parvanta, Mary E. Cogswell, Sharon M. McDonnell, Barbara A. Bowman, Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn, Frederick L. Trowbridge, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; in collaboration with: Elaine W. Gunter, Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health; Anne C. Looker, Division of Health Examination Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics; Onno W. Van-Assendelft, Scientific Resource Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Rosemary C. Bakes-Martin, Laboratory Practice Training Branch, Public Health Practice Program Office; Caryn Bern, L. Diane Clark, Geraldine S. Perry, Kelley S. Scanlon, Bettylou Sherry, Colette L. Zyrkowski, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion." ; "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1998-633-228/67061 Region IV."--P. [4] of cover. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-29).

"From 1946-1948, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau collaborated with several government agencies in Guatemala on U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded studies involving deliberate exposure of human subjects with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Guatemalan partners included the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, the National Army of the Revolution, the National Mental Health Hospital, and the Ministry of Justice. Studies were conducted under the on-site direction of John C. Cutler, MD, in Guatemala City, who worked under the supervision of R.C. Arnold, MD, and John F. Mahoney, MD, of the USPHS VDRL in Staten Island, New York. The primary local collaborator was Dr. Juan Funes, chief of the VD control division of the Guatemalan Sanidad Publica. The work by Dr. Cutler and VDRL colleagues was recently brought to light by Professor Susan Reverby of Wellesley College, as a result of archival work conducted as part of the research of her 2009 book on PHS syphilis studies, Examining Tuskegee. Her article on the STD Inoculation studies is scheduled to be published in the Journal of Policy Studies in January 2011 and will be available on her departmental homepage in October 2010 (www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/fac_reverby.html). Upon learning of Professor Reverby's work, staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a review of materials in the papers of Dr. Cutler, archived at the University of Pittsburgh. These papers included several summary reports, experimental logs, correspondence between Dr. Cutler and professional colleagues, and subject-specific records. The findings from this review are consistent with the observations to be published in Dr. Reverby's paper." - p. [1] ; "29 September 2010." ; Mode of access: Internet from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Web site as an Acrobat .pdf file (104.5 KB, 27 p.).