Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, United States of America

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. CDC, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides technical assistance to LF-endemic countries throughout the Americas. To date, it has assisted LF research, epidemiological assessments and pilot LF elimination programmes in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guyana and Haiti. It has been instrumental in the development of guidelines for monitoring the success of these programmes.

To help guide elimination programmes CDC also maintains a data base and library on the epidemiology and history of filariasis in the Americas.