This guide provides public health organisations and practitioners with a practical approach to strengthening the integration of social media into their overall communication activities. It focuses, in particular, on identifying effective ways to use social media to enhance crisis, risk and...

HIV transmission remains a major public health concern and affects more than 2 million people in the WHO European Region, particularly in the eastern part of the Region. This report is the latest in a series published jointly by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the...

HIV transmission remains a major public health concern and affects more than 2 million people in the WHO European Region, particularly in the eastern part of the Region. This report is the latest in a series published jointly by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the...

External quality assessments (EQA) are an essential part of any laboratory-based surveillance system, allowing for the monitoring of performance and comparability of results from participating laboratories, identification of potential issues and deployment of resources and training where...

Online and digital/social media are increasingly important communication channels for reaching audiences in a targeted and cost-effective manner. Gay and bisexual men have long been early adopters of technology and the use of the technology by gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex...

The results presented in this report are based on antimicrobial resistance data from invasive isolates reported to EARS-Net by 30 European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries in 2017 (data referring to 2016), and on trend analyses of data reported by the participating countries...