Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) such as nursing homes or residential care homes, often serve as residencies for elderly individuals who have medical and social vulnerabilities. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU/EEA lacked national incidence surveillance systems for healthcare-associated...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has developed a monitoring system for hepatitis B and C to support countries in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) in monitoring responses to their epidemics of hepatitis B and C. The monitoring system is closely...

A prolonged genomic cluster of 20 human Listeria monocytogenes ST1607 infections has been reported to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, with cases identified in Denmark (17), Germany (1), and Italy (2) since 2019. The number of cases has sharply increased after 2021. The...

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting women worldwide. It is caused by persistent infection with oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV). More than 200 types of HPV have been identified and more than 40 types of them infect the genital tract. HPV 16 and 18 are the two...

The framework is aligned with the overall amended ECDC Strategy 2021-2027 and contributes to the following strategic objectives: - Maintain the independence and rigour of scientific processes and strengthen the relevance and accessibility of scientific outputs to support public health policies...

The decline in the reported number of new transmissions of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections across European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries has continued, but the burden remains high, with an estimated 5.4 million people with chronic HBV and...

In 2021, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) updated the HIV targets for 2025 as part of the global strategy to end AIDS by 2030. The updated targets are for 95% of all people living with HIV (PLHIV) to be diagnosed, 95% of those diagnosed to be on antiretroviral treatment...

Pertussis is an endemic disease in the EU/EEA and worldwide. Every three to five years, larger epidemics are expected even with high vaccination coverge. After a few years of limited circulation in the EU/EEA, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 25 000 cases of pertussis were...

In 2022-2023, 28 EU/EEA countries and three Western Balkan countries (Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia) participated in the third ECDC point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals. Data from a total of 1 623...

This document describes a framework for how the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) will strengthen, develop and implement the One Health approach in its activities for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA)...