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CDC: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis

The Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Tuberculosis (TB) programs at CDC provide grants and technical assistance to State and local governments and organizations; conduct surveillance and support research to control STDs, their transmission and consequences; and, to prevent, control, and work toward elimination of TB.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Both the STD and TB activities have a clear purpose and address specific and ongoing problems. More than 65 million people in the U.S. live with an incurable STD, while two million people per year die of TB worldwide.
  • The programs have strong performance measures that focus on outcomes. For example, goals include the elimination of syphilis by 2008 and the reduction of the number of persons per 100,000 population with TB among US-born persons, foreign-born persons, and overall to 1.2, 19.3, and 2.9, respectively, by 2010.
  • The STD program distributes its main grant awards to states based on historical distributions and does not target the majority of funds based on current need.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing methods to effectively target the STD and TB programs so that resources directly address the programs' purposes.
  • Conducting independent evaluations of sufficient scope and quality to support program improvements and evaluate effectiveness and relevance to the need.
  • Tracking performance on the new long-term and annual performance measures and developing a measure to track its efficiency.

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