HAI/AR Program Activities
CDC awards funding to 64 state, local, territorial, and U.S.-affiliated health departments to support healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance (HAI/AR) activities. Learn what health departments are doing to prevent and control HAI/AR by navigating to any of the pages below.
Preventing and containing HAI/AR outbreaks and threats
Bolstering the nation’s ability to detect and respond to antibiotic resistance
Strengthening the nation’s most widely used HAI tracking system
Measuring and improving how antibiotics are prescribed
Teaching and training the infection prevention workforce
Providing additional subject matter expertise and resources to facilities like nursing homes and long-term care hospitals