The “Country Workshop to discuss Influenza Surveillance” took place on the 29th-31st January 2014 in Pristine, Kosovo*, within the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe”.
On January 17th,2014 a meeting between SECID’s representatives and the colleagues of Macedonia IPH took place in Skopje. The aim of the meeting was to coordinate the work for organizing the Country Workshop to discuss Influenza Surveillance, within the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe”.
On January 14th, 2014 a meeting between SECID’s representatives and the colleagues of Kosovo* IPH took place in Kosovo*.
All countries have established their Influenza Surveillance Group based on ToR-s developed by SECID and have signed contracts to develop assigned activities in their own country.
SECID received New Award for ''SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA", Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) IP13-1306, (Award) 5U51IP000841-01 from CDC, USA on 27 August 2013.
A 5 year proposal on STRENTHENING SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA IN SEE COUNTRIES was developed in April 2013 with support of WHO, EURO and submitted to CDC, Atlanta, USA in May 2013.
CDCS SEE is part of Connecting Health Networks for Diseases Surveillance now a new established international organization named CORDS and its director and some members are part of its Executive Board together with members of other similar networks in the world and such members of the network participated and were part of CORDS launch in