The spread of tuberculosis (TB) occurs mainly in settings where prolonged contact between people promotes the transmission from an infectious 'source case' with TB disease to one or several 'contacts'. A main component in stopping the spread of TB is to rapidly diagnose infectious TB disease...

The spread of tuberculosis (TB) occurs mainly in settings where prolonged contact between people promotes the transmission from an infectious 'source case' with TB disease to one or several 'contacts'. A main component in stopping the spread of TB is to rapidly diagnose infectious TB disease...

This guide is intended to provide a set of principles for EURLs for public health on how to plan, coordinate, and implement EU-level EQAs for public health microbiology laboratories. This document is not intended to offer comprehensive technical guidance on the general implementation of EQAs....

ECDC has been working with EU Candidate Countries since 2006 and with EU Potential Candidate Countries since 2009 to prepare them for participation in ECDC activities. Work with these countries has been mainly financed by a Contribution Agreement between the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood...

If the AIDS epidemic is to be brought to end by 2030, it is crucial to combat HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings, as per United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 Target 3.3 [1] and the Paris Declaration [2]. The UNAIDS target related to stigma and...

The ECDC Social Marketing guide provides public health programme managers and practitioners with a summary of social marketing concepts and approaches. The guide introduces key principles and action steps that can be applied when considering, implementing and/or evaluating social marketing...

This European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 'Let's talk about hesitancy' guide provides practical evidence-based and peer-reviewed advice for public health programme managers (PHPMs) and communicators involved with immunisation services. It identifies ways to enhance people's...

The main objective of this protocol is to ensure standardisation of definitions, data collection and reporting procedures for hospitals participating in the national/regional surveillance of HAIs in ICUs across Europe, in order to contribute to the EU surveillance of HAIs, and to improve the...