Workshop held to harmonize various disease surveillance practices

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Workshop held to harmonize various
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Posted on 12 Feb 2007

Participants at the PIDSR consultant workshop (January 31- Feb1, 2007)

MANILA- Surveillance of and response to communicable diseases including the most-dreaded avian influenza will soon be standardized across the country with the recent involvement of regional health officials in finetuning the proposed Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (PIDSR) System and its related implementation guidelines.

PRIMEX assisted the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) through its National Epidemiology Center (NEC) in outlining the country’s roadmap for compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO)-prescribed International Health Regulations (IHR)-2005 resulting in the formulation of the PIDSR system. The initial draft was presented to some 65 representatives of DOH regional offices nationwide, NEC and WHO at a two-day consultative workshop last January 31 to February 1 at Kimberly Hotel in Manila.

The workshop validated and enhanced the assessment of ESR in the country, presented earlier at a regional workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, which highlighted “a number of vertical and parallel diseases surveillance systems in different stages of development that render the surveillance work inefficient,” complicated and ineffective, according to a report submitted by the consultant team.

PIDSR was said to integrate and standardize these parallel and often incongruent surveillance systems currently practiced by various health units nationwide.

Further consultation and finetuning of the PIDSR is scheduled on February 26 to involve the participation of local government health managers to make it more grassroots-oriented and fully compliant with IHR-2005. Another workshop is set on February 27-28 to finalize the guidelines of the PIDSR building on the two rounds of consultations conducted.

IHR-2005, the most recent revision of the International Health Regulations, was unanimously adopted on 23 May 2005 by the World Health Assembly scheduled to enter into force in June 2007 for all member states. Its broadened purpose and scope are to "prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade."

The activity formed part of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and Response (ESR) project for Communicable Diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (TA No. 6305 – REG).

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