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MBDSMekong Basin Disease Surveillance

Newsletter

September to December 2009

First Meeting on Cross Border Disease Surveillancewithin Xayabouly Province, Lao PDR and Nan Province, Thailand

Xayabouly Province, 29th – 30th October 2009

On the 29th October 2009, in Lang Son

City of Vietnam, MBDS Vietnam

organized the Cross-border meeting among

Lang Son, Lai Chau, Quang Ninh province

of Vietnam and Yunnan, Guangxi province

of China.

26 participants including CCs of the two

countries, sites coordinators, leaders of

border provincial and district health

department, animal health sector and from

international cooperation departments have

shared information, experiences in

outbreak surveillance, prevention and

control.

The participants discussed the list of

diseases to be informed and the forms,

frequency, contact persons with

communication information and the

coming activities.

This is the first meeting for China and

Vietnam within MBDS’s cooperation.

The participants assessed that the

meeting has met the objectives and

good outcomes.

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MBDS Cooperation Cross Border Meeting among Lang Son, Lai Chau,Wuang Ninh Provinces, Vientnam and Guangxi, Yunnan Provinces, China

Lang Son, Vietnam, 29th October 2009

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Ministry of Health Lao PDR have expended to three provinces project sites as

Vientiane capital with Nong Kai , Borikhamxay with Hatinh Province and arranged

the meeting between Lao PDR and Thailand and agreed to exchange diseases

information by daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly. Health officers from Lao PDR

and Thailand attended the meeting and discussed to Establish the provincial

coordinator at provincial and district level with TOR, to exchange information

activities follow in MBDS strategies, to arrange yearly rotate meeting and to perform

joint outbreak investigation according to agreement of each sites. The diseases for

reporting are as follows:

•Avian Flu

•AFP

•SARS

•Cholera /Severe Diarrhea

•Encephalitis•Tetanus

•Meningitis

•Diphtheria

•PHEIC


First Meeting on Cross Border Disease Surveillance

within Xayabouly Province, Lao PDR and Nan Province, Thailand

Xayabouly Province, 29th – 30th October 2009

•Dengue fever

•Typhoid fever

•Measles

•Malaria

•Pneumonia•HIV/AIDs

•Tuberculosis

•Leptospirosis

•Chikungunya





The main objectives of the meeting are to

strengthen collaboration in epidemic/

communicable disease control between border

sites, to share experiences and information on

outbreak prevention and control of these

provinces and to make a plan of joint activities

in outbreak surveillance, prevention andcontrol in the future.

Dr. Sok Touch, Director of CDC Department,

Dr. Ly Sovann, Deputy Director of CDC

Department, Ministry of Health; Dr. Heng

Nheu, Director of PHD Stung Treng, Ms.

Romdoul Kim, InSTEDD Representative and

Health Officers from CDC Department, PHD,

OD and Health Center of Stung TrengProvince attended the meeting from Cambodia

side.

Dr. Bounlay Phoummasak, Deputy Director

General of Hygiene and Prevention

Department, Ministry of Health, Dr. Vath

Kong Keo, Director of Health Department,

MBDS Cross-Border Collaboration Meeting

Between Stung Treng Province, Cambodia and Champasak Province, Lao PDRStung Treng Province, Cambodia, 05 - 06 October 2009


Champasak Province, Health Officers

from PHD and Health District of

Champasak Province attended the

meeting from Lao PDR side.

In the meeting, Dr. Ly Sovann presented

about AH1N1 situation update fromCambodia, Ms. Vanida presented about

AH1N1 situation from Lao PDR, Dr.

Heng Nheu presented the progress

update from Stung Treng Province by

using MBDS indicators and Dr. Vath

Kong Keo presented about the progress

update from Champasak Province by

using MBDS indicators, too.

The participants discussed on 7 MBDS

Strategies which are information sharing,

Human Resource Development in

Epidemiology, Animal-Human interface,

ICT, Laboratory, Risk Communication

and Policy Research.





Innovative Support To Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD) highlighted the

general concept of GeoChat and its interests in CDC especially for RRT of both sidesand demonstrated the field testing of GeoChat and made the exercise of SMS and

registered the name of RRT to GeoChat network.

In the meeting, the health officers agreed upon the disease under the surveillance

including AFP, SARS, severe diarrhea, dengue fever, typhoid fever, measles, pneumonia,

malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, to strengthen and continue the information

exchange between Cambodia and Lao PDR and to manage joint outbreak investigation

control.

Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Cross-Border Meeting among Kampot, Takeo,

Svayrieng, Cambodia and An Giang, Kien Giang, Tay Ninh, VietnamChau Doc, An Giang, 31 August 2009






Content•MBDS XB Meeting

Between China and Vietnam 1

•MBDS XB Meeting

Between Lao PDR and Thailand 2

•MBDS XB Meeting

Between Cambodia and Lao PDR 3, 4

•MBDS XB Meeting

Between Cambodia and Vietnam 4

•MBDS Cambodia activities 5

•MBDS China activities 6

•MBDS Thailand activities 7

•MBDS Lao PDR activities 7

A basic epidemiology and biostatistics

training course was conducted at Asia Hotel,

Kampong Chhnang Province on 5-7 August

2009. It was organized by the CDC

Department and in collaboration with centre

for National Malaria, Dengue, and parasitic

infection control and financially supported

by Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance

(MBDS).

The main objectives are to build up the

capacity of the Rapid Response Team (RRT)

in basic epidemiology and biostatistics and

to strengthen the provincial RRT members

in skills and knowledge of basic

epidemiology and biostatistics.

Training on Basic Epidemiology for RRT

Banteay Meachey, Kampot, Svayreing, Stung Treng and Takeo Provinces, CambodiaAsia Hotel, Kampon Chang Province, 05 - 07 August 2009

The RRT from Svay Rieng, Takeo,

Banteay Meanchey, and Stung Treng

provinces and CDC Department, totally

18 participants attended the training and

4 trainers from CDC Department and 1trainer from CNM.






On 26 - 30 October, 2009, Yunnan CDC

hosted the Training on Strengthening

Diseases Surveillance and Response in

Border area in Yunnan Province.

The training is aimed to strengtheningsurveillance and response of AH1N1, avian

influenza, cholera in border areas of

Yunnan; to improve sample collection and

safety transportation; to improve lab

diagnosis capacity on those diseases and to

perform risk communication of public

health emergency.

The topics in the training are as follows:

• Status quo of infectious disease epidemic

and control strategy

• Surveillance, finding the report of

imported cases• Risk communication of public health

emergency

• A case study of cholera epidemic

investigation

• Investigation and response of human

infectious highly pathogenic avian flu

• Focus points of AH1N1 surveillance and

response

• Public health emergency investigation

and response in border area• Field epidemiology investigation

• Lab diagnosis technique

• Emergency response supplies

management


Training on Strengthening Diseases Surveillance and Responsein Border Area in Yunnan Province

Yunan CDC, 26 - 30 October 2009






GeoChat Training at Mukdahan Province

24 – 25 September 2009

Thai Health Promotion Foundation, ICT

program is organized the Workshop of Using

Geochat for SRRT Communication Network

together with InSTEDD and MBDS on

September 25th -26th , 2009 in Mukdahan,

Thailand.

The workshop focused on using Geochat for

support communication network for

Surveillance Rapid Respond Team-SRRT and

to brainstorm for the next 6 months action

plan.

The participants are Public Health Staffsfrom Mukdahan, Thailand and observers

form Savannakhet Lao PDR totally around 30

people attended the workshop.

Workshop of Information System

for Disease Surveillance

in Mukdahan & Savannakhet

through SMS by using GeoChat

Savannakhet, Lao PDR, 25 – 26 Sept, 2009

The workshop of using InSTEDD, Geochat for

SRRT communication network, which washeld on November 25th -27th, 2009 in

Savannakhet, Lao PDR organized by MBDS,

InSTEDD and Thai Health Promotion

Foundation, ICT program.

The main objectives are to apply mobile phone

messaging system in disease surveillance, to

improve technical skill of health and public

health staffs in Savarnakhet and to develop the

effective disease surveillance communication

system for SRRT team.

The participants are Public Health Officers

from Savannakhet, Lao PDR and Mukdahan,

Thailand.

Dr. Li Huiyang

Compile and created by: Hnin Pwint Phyu @ Snow

Design by: Media Positive

Produced by: Dr. Moe Ko Oo

MBDS Regional Coordinating Office

c/o Ministry of Public Health

Department of Disease Control

Tiwanond Road, Nonthaburi,11000, Thailand

http://www.mbdsoffice.com

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