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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formally established the Central America Regional Office (CDC-CAR) in Guatemala City in October 2005. It grew out of a field station created by CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases in El Salvador in the 1960s that was transferred to Guatemala in 1978.

CDC began an ongoing collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Burkina Faso in 1991 to provide guidance for polio eradication. This cooperation has since expanded to include other important health issues.

CDC has a strong relationship with the country of Georgia. Partnering with Georgia’s National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) and other ministries, CDC helps develop institutional capacity to detect and respond to disease outbreaks.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Haiti office opened in 2002 and focused on preventing the transmission of HIV/AIDS, providing care and treatment to those already infected, increasing laboratory and strategic information capacity, and building health care infrastructure.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/ Division of Global HIV/AIDS Zambia office was launched in December 2000 and has worked with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) ministries and provincial health offices to support the national strategy to combat HIV/AIDS.

CDC in Honduras addresses HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, emerging infectious diseases, influenza, and field epidemiology training.

CDC has been working in Jordan since November 1998. CDC works with the Jordan Ministry of Health (MoH) to build human workforce capacity and to improve the use of data at all levels of the MoH.

CDC has been collaborating with Ministry of Health in the Kyrgyz Republic since 1995 to better recognize and respond to serious public health threats.

In 1995, CDC also formally established an office (CDC-Central Asia Region—CDC-CAR) in Almaty, Kazakhstan to serve as the home base for coordinating activities throughout the Central Asia Region.

CDC has collaborated with Indonesia for more than fifty years.