Two examples of European cooperation projects founded by European Commission`s Public Health Programme

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• Two examples of European cooperation projects
  founded by European Commissions Public Health
  Programme
• European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted
  Infections (ESSTI)
• Eurosurveillance - Peer-reviewed European
  information on communicable disease surveillance
  and control

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European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted
Infections network - (ESSTI)

• Established 2001
• Hub at Health Protection Agency in London
• 22 EU member states Norway and Iceland
• Working collaboration between STI surveillance
  heads and STI reference microbiologists
• Web site www.essti.org
• Laboratory cooperation
• Subgroups
• STI outbreak early warning and response system

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ESSTI - objectives

• review current EU STI surveillance and prevention
  policies and practice
• develop a methodology for investigating and
  responding to STI outbreaks in Europe
• develop and pilot a methodology for enhanced
  EU-wide laboratory surveillance for N.
  gonorrhoeae infection, including antimicrobial
  resistance detection and monitoring
• To pilot methodology for prospective collection
  of EU surveillance data.

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Recent trends in gonorrhoea in selected EU
countries and Norway.
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Rates of genital chlamydial infection in selected
EU countries and Norway.
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Eurosurveillance - Peer-reviewed European
information on communicable disease surveillance
and control

• Established 1995
• Editorial team based at both the Institut de
  veille sanitaire, Paris and e, and at Health
  Protection Agency, London
• EU member states Norway and Iceland and others
• Web site www.eurosurveillance.org
• Weekly, monthly and quarterly

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Aims of Eurosurveillance

• The dissemination of authoritative information to
  accelerate implementation of effective
  communicable disease surveillance and prevention,
  and promote international awareness across Europe
  in responding to communicable disease
• The maintenance and development of a Europe-wide
  readership of public health and infectious
  disease professionals that in an emergency
  situation is sensitised to receiving rapidly
  authoritative, professional information from the
  European Commission, designated national
  authorities, and others
• The building of capacity and training in public
  health aspects of infectious diseases through
  making selected information available to the
  enlarged Europe, and to give authors a European
  specific tool for publishing high quality papers
  indexed by Medline
• Improving access to valuable information and
  sources by providing an easily searchable archive
  and popular portal where carefully chosen key
  links are maintained
• Promoting the Network Approach and the role of
  the European Center for Disease Prevention and
  Control in Stockholm through publishing
  communicable disease information and decisions
  from the Commission, as well as surveillance
  outputs from Designated Surveillance Networks
• Enlarging and strengthening the European group of
  editors of national epidemiological bulletins
  (Eurosurveillance's Editorial Advisors) to
  improve cooperation between member states.

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Eurosurveillance

• Eurosurveillance Weekly
• (Internet only)
• Eurosurveillance Monthly
• (Internet only)
• Eurosurveillance Qarterly
• (Paper and Internet)

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Eurosurveillance- editorial advisors

• DENMARK - Peter Henrik Andersen -EPI-NEWS -
  Statens Serum Institut
• ESTONIA - Kuulo Kutsar - EpiNorth -
  Tervisekaitseinspektsioon
• FINLAND - Hanna Nohynek KTL
• LATVIA - Jurijs Perevoscikovs - Department of
  Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious
  Diseases, State Agency "Public Health Agency
• LITHUANIA -Dalia Rokaite - Centre for
  Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
• NORWAY - Hans Blystad - MSIS-rapport -
  Folkehelseinstituttet
• SWEDEN - Aase Sten - Smittskydd -
  Smittskyddsinstitutet

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