The HH freshly provided $5.4 milli...

The HH freshly provided $5.4 million in foundations for the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission to enhance binational early warning infectious disease surveillance programs to identify naturally occurring infectious diseases, potential bioterrorism agents, and other major threats to public health. The capitals will be made available to six Mexican border states and to the Secretariat of Health of Mexico to aid existing efforts on the Mexican government and help create early warning infectious disease surveillance arrangements in those six Mexican states and the four U states (California, Arizona, of recent origin Mexico, and Texas) that share the border. HH previously provided supplemental permanent funds to enhance surveillance programs to the U border states. The program will be implemented throughout a three-year period. Funds will be applied to disease detection and reporting, epidemiologic investigations and information technology, and education and training activities destitutioned to develop an early warning infectious disease surveillance order Additional information about this commission is available online at http://www.borderhealth.org.

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