ECDC country visit to Albania to discuss surveillance of communicable diseases : ECDC accession support to the Western Balkans and Türkiye 2024

ECDC is helping countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC's work. Technical cooperation with Western Balkans and Türkiye aims to improve their 'One-Health' response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and enhance surveillance of laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory infections (SARI). The project is funded by the European Commission under the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). This action is structured around three technical work streams, of which work stream 1;'preparatory measures to enable IPA beneficiaries to participate in ECDC activities and systems' is the one considered here. The aim is to support countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye as they prepare for full participation in ECDC's activities. This will enable them to fulfil ECDC requirements for data and information submission (including completeness and timeliness) at the minimum level required by the EU.