Short Description In the European Vaccine Action Plan, the WHO defined hepatitis B control through immunization as one of the major strategic goals. The WHO/EURO Action Plan for response to viral hepatitis sets the goal of elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. It also sets…
Short Description COVID-19 strongly affects the living conditions of people, showing the value of reliable and timely information. The burden of disease (BoD) methodology is a suitable instrument to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health, but while illness and death impose a considerable impact, the disease…
Short Description The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the national health and care systems in hepatitis control. The need to reallocate resources and personnel, decreased accessibility to services, and temporarily reduced supplies of tests and medications are likely to have far-reaching consequences for other disease areas, including viral hepatitis.
Short Description Emergency Medical Teams for medical assistance in health emergencies Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) are teams of doctors, nurses and logisticians which deploy to an affected country in response to disasters and disease outbreaks. By treating the affected population, they provide surge capacity to support the local health system.
Short Description National Immunisation Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) are multidisciplinary panels of national experts providing independent and evidence-based guidance to Ministries of Health on immunisation policies and vaccine use in the population. The main task of the NITAGs is to gather, review, evaluate and structure evidence on specific vaccination topics…
Short Description The project FUTURE INTERNATIONAL, jointly led by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the Charité University Medicine, gives selected hospitals with ICUs in partner countries the opportunity to be part of a telemedical intensive care network and to benefit from web-based learning. Through telemedicine, permanent on-site clinical technical…
Short Description Health care workers play a critical role in health service delivery, patient care and the effective implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. This project will assess the ongoing burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among health care workers and seek to improve related IPC recommendations in health care…