Supervision of sentinel sites took place in Tirana and other districts of Albania from December 2018- January 2019. These visits were organized in the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza".
The aim of the visits were to supervise the registers in order to verify suspected cases of flu influenza or other respiratory viruses.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the Council of State Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the South East European Centre for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (SECID), organized the training course “Improving Influenza Program Management Practices” which was held on March 26th – March 29th, 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia.
In the framework of the fifth year of the implementation of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza”, funded by Center of Disease Control Prevention (CDC), on 12 February 2018, in Tirana, was organized a meeting regarding Revision of Pandemic Influenza plan.
Influenza activities were organized in Kosovo* during February, in the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza’, funded by Centre of Disease Control Prevention (CDC).
“Annual Influenza season Meeting”, on 23 February 2018 gathered together specialist from sentinel Sites, Epidemiologist, Infectologist, Pediatrician, specialist from IUC, Pulmologist and GP.
During the meeting the main topics discussed were:
-Importance of timely reporting
In the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza’, funded by Centre of Disease Control Prevention (CDC), on 30 March was organized ‘Annual Regional Influenza Meeting of Countries of South East Europe (SEE)’, in Zagreb, Croatia.
On 21st November 2017 a workshop was held at the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Disease, Sofia (NCIPD) on the implementation of the project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza”, funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This project is being implemented by SECID in South-Eastern Europe.
Participants from different organizations attended the meeting.
In the framework of the fifth year implementation of the Project ‘Surveillance and response to avian and pandemic influenza’, funded by Center of Disease Control Prevention (CDC), on 11-12 October 2017, in Albania was organized a workshop to enhance and strengthen the surveillance of SARI in Tirana.
The objective of the workshop was:
A Workshop on Midterm Seasonal Influenza Surveillance Evaluation in South Eastern European Countries, took place in Belgrade Serbia, on 11 December 2017The overall aim of the workshop was to analyse the current status of influenza surveillance evaluation and the challenges and opportunities related to it in all countries of South Eastern Europe to improve the surveillance evaluation process.
The specific objectives of the meeting were to:
From November 13th to 15th three SECID’s specialists (one from Serbia: Dr Dragana Dimitrijevic and two from Montenegro: Dr Božidarka Rakocevic and Ana Radulovic) conducted a study visit to RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment); NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research) and Erasmus MC. This activity was part of the project "Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza by the National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe", financed by CDC, USA.