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what is a communicable disease?

The Communicable Disease Branch has four main objectives:
To promptly investigate disease outbreaks and unusual situations and to implement control measures to minimize further transmission of disease
To monitor disease-reporting by physicians and laboratories in order to detect trends and to assess the public health impact of diseases
To provide a channel of communication between public health agencies, private physicians, and hospital and occupational infection control personnel, as an essential part of disease control efforts
To explain public health interventions and disseminate health education messages to the community and the media in order to enhance disease control efforts
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Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Ten educators, NGO workers, and doctors working to fight communicable diseases in the remote Pamir region of Tajikistan returned on October 4, 2007 from three weeks of professional exchange in Wisconsin. The trip was made possible through the Community Connections program funded by USAID.

During their stay in Wausau, Wisconsin, the group of disease prevention specialists met with their American counterparts at clinics, government agencies, and social service groups. The visits inspired the specialists from Tajikistan to introduce new approaches to disease prevention back home, including methods for conducting awareness campaigns using limited resources, involving parents in preventing drug use, and raising awareness of schoolchildren from twelve schools of Khorog.
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