GENERAL INFORMATION
 

Project title
 

Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

Priority area
 

Health

Beneficiary

Turkish Public Health Agency

Co-Beneficiary
 

Duration

42 months (28/10/2010-04/2014)

EU contribution (Euro)

PROJECT SUMMARY

Brief description of the project and main objectives
 

This project supports the Turkish government in its efforts to develop an early warning and response system (EWRS) to detect, assess, report and respond to health events and public health risks (hazards of infectious, chemical, radio-nuclear or unknown origin) in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR) and the EU communicable disease surveillance system acquis.

This project aims to develop a more efficient early warning and response system (EWRS) for Türkiye to comply with acquis communautaire and to operate under the IHR.

Location

Ankara

Achievements / expected outputs

• The EWRS is strengthened by finely tuning technical functions and communications.
• Turkish Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) is institutionalized.
• Improvement of present capacity in microbiology laboratories, support for Turkish EWRS, is extended.
• A National Microbiological Laboratory Training Programme (MLTP) including laboratory management and specific laboratory training programme is institutionalized.