Transcript European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Two examples of European cooperation
projects founded by European
Commission`s Public Health Programme
• European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted
Infections (ESSTI)
• Eurosurveillance - Peer-reviewed European
information on communicable disease
surveillance and control
European Surveillance of Sexually
Transmitted Infections network - (ESSTI)
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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
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.
Recent trends in gonorrhoea in selected EU
countries and Norway.
Notification per 100,000 population
40
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Ireland
Italy*
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain*
Sweden
UK
35
30
25
20
15
10
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1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
Year of report
1997
1998
1999
2000
Rates of genital chlamydial infection in
selected EU countries and Norway.
Rate per 100,000 population
750
600
Iceland
Sweden
450
Norway
300
Finland
Denmark
150
England, Wales & N.
Ireland
Ireland
0
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1988
1990
1992
1994
Year of report
1996
1998
2000
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
Aims of Eurosurveillance
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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
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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
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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;
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Improving access to valuable information and sources by providing an easily searchable
archive and popular portal where carefully chosen key links are maintained;
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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;
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Enlarging and strengthening the European group of editors of national epidemiological
bulletins (Eurosurveillance's Editorial Advisors) to improve cooperation between member
states.
Eurosurveillance
• Eurosurveillance Weekly
(Internet only)
• Eurosurveillance Monthly
(Internet only)
• Eurosurveillance Qarterly
(Paper and Internet)
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