The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its updated Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Investment Map last week, which spotlights funding to initiatives and organizations (including local and state health departments) that are making efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance and boost infection control.
The interactive map shows where CDC funding has gone in every state to support health departments and public health partners, as well as other initiatives. The data also includes a fact sheet that shows the CDC’s global investments in more than 60 countries. Global efforts aim to detect, prevent and respond to threats related to antimicrobial infection around the world.
Users can also look at where supplemental funding for infection prevention and control goes in terms of training, surveillance and public health individuals. People can click on a specific state to see exactly where CDC funding is going in terms of health departments and other infection control and prevention partners. Users can pare down data according to state and local health departments, universities and other partners across the globe.
The map includes some new features, including those that let people view features through a toggle. People can look at data in HTML and PDF formats. There are also other tools to improve website navigation.
Each year, more than 3 million people in the United States acquire an antimicrobial-resistant infection or Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection, which is often tied to being on an antibiotic. The CDC invested more than $155 million of annual funding in the 2023 fiscal year to support health departments and partners domestically and abroad to combat and prevent antimicrobial-resistant infections. The CDC also has put more than $265 million from temporary supplemental funding to fight infections that threaten the nation’s health, including those caused by antimicrobial-resistant organisms, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, the agency wrote in a statement. The CDC’s AR Solutions Initiative invests money in national infrastructure in order to detect, respond to, contain and prevent resistant infections in healthcare settings, communities as well as utilities such as food, water and soil. The funding from this goes to all state health departments.
