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

SECID representatives took part on CORDS 2018 Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand on the 29^th and 30^th January 2018. This event was organized by Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS), The Rockefeller Foundation, and Ending Pandemics (formerly Skoll Global Threats Fund). 

For further information please follow the link below:

https://www.cordsnetwork.org/conference-bangkok-2018/

Activities of the survey on describing knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP survey) related to influenza vaccination among pregnant women and their health care workers, took place on 20-21 March 2018, in Tirana, Albania.

Pictures from: Training of interviewers and field testing, for KAP survey related to influenza vaccination among pregnant women and their health care workers, Tirana, Albania