The European Commission has launched the Healthier together – EU Non-Communicable Diseases Initiative (EU NCD Initiative) to support EU countries in identifying and implementing effective policies and actions to reduce the burden of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and impr...
In 2020, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) requested the start of the second year of an External Quality Assessment (EQA) scheme for the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance network, for the detection, isolation, identification, and enumeration ...
The ability to rapidly diagnose infectious diseases is critical, not only for the appropriate and timely treatment of infected patients, but also for infectious disease surveillance, the detection of outbreaks and controlling the rapid spread of infectious diseases nationally and...
The ability to rapidly diagnose infectious diseases is critical, not only for the appropriate and timely treatment of infected patients, but also for infectious disease surveillance, the detection of outbreaks and controlling the rapid spread of infectious diseases nationally and...
This report presents HIV/AIDS surveillance data for 2020, a period marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic which affected Europe heavily from March 2020 onwards. To better understand the extent to which the pandemic affected 2020 HIV/AIDS surveillance data, the World Health Organi...
The digital transformation of healthcare, health services, and health systems remains high on the agenda of policy-makers and is receiving increased funding. This creates an opportunity for those involved in public health activities to define how this area can benefit from invest...
New developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly in digital technologies, have the potential to significantly improve the speed and accuracy of key public health functions such as infectious disease diagnostics, surveillance, forecasting, outbrea...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major public health concern in the WHO European Region, with estimates from the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) alone showing that each year more than 670 000 infections are due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics and appro...
The end of 2019 saw the emergence of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome: coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of week 38 2021, over 37 million cases and more than more than 750 000 deaths had been reported in the European Union/E...