During that year, she had started her residency in the Hospital National Medical Center in Washington. However, after three years of performing her residency in the hospital, she was selected to received the CDC’s special Epidemic Intelligence Training (Riccucci, 2002). In this training, she learned epidemics hands-on training, yet her main focus was on prevention of malnutrition in children of the United States and Africa. Later on, she would specialize in preventive medicine for diarrheal diseases. As a consequence of her dedication, she joined the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS (Riccucci, 2002). Moreover, Dr. Gayle addition to the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS would open many opportunities for …show more content…
Moreover, the CDC reported in the year 2000, around 774,467 Americans were infected with AIDS (Riccucci, 2002). This impressive number caught the attention of the CDC and decided to take action against HIV/AIDS. However, not only was the United States demonstrating alarming numbers of people infected with AIDS but South Africa as well. In South Africa, the statistics demonstrated that around 4.7 million people were infected with HIV (Riccucci, 2002). Furthermore, these tremendous numbers place South Africa as the country with the highest rates of HIV infections. However, the number of people infected with STD worldwide was also alarming with an estimation of 340 million people (Riccucci, 2002). The tremendous problem that HIV/AIDS was having on the world caught the attention of Dr.Gayle and decided to take action in the source of the