disease prevention and control

Girls and young women account for 74 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. The DREAMS initiative is reducing that number.

The U.S. global AIDS relief initiative has helped millions of people since it was created 15 years ago. Meet one of them.

December 1 is World AIDS Day. See the latest figures showing the millions of lives saved through the U.S. global AIDS relief initiative called PEPFAR.

A new exhibition, "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World," shows the connection between human, animal and environmental health.

An international team of scientists may have found a way to turn modified rice seeds into a weapon against HIV/AIDS.

Find out how U.S. and Sri Lankan military and other officials teamed up in August on a humanitarian and disaster readiness operation.

One in 9 people suffers hunger, but hundreds of millions more face malnutrition. For children, the consequences can be devastating. The 2018 World Food Prize honors two nutrition champions.

U.S. taxpayers and pharmaceutical companies are leading the way in curbing tropical diseases such as blinding trachoma. The threat has been eliminated in Ghana and Nepal.

The U.S. is working with the United Nations Children's Fund in Laos to provide flood victims in Attapeu Province with access to clean water and basic hygiene supplies.