Category: disease surveillance

An Important Partnership in Central America

On the streets of Tegucigalpa or San Salvador or Santo Domingo or in the capitals of five other Central American countries, few people would be able to provide an answer to this question: What is the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America’s (COMISCA)? Despite the understandable lack of awareness, COMISCA has emerged Read More >

September 2, 2014 by Dr. Nelson Arboleda, CDC Central American Regional Office Director

Archive, health systems strengthening

Belize, Caribbean, Central America, Costa Rica, disease surveillance, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, HIV/AIDS, Honduras, influenza pandemic, Latin America, Nicaragua, Panama

Voices from the Central African Republic: FELTP residents remain committed to strengthening disease surveillance and outbreak response in CAR

CAR refugees forced from their homes by rebels

The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa, bordered by Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west. CAR is one of the world’s least developed Read More >

June 5, 2014 by Dr. Els Mathieu, Resident Advisor, CAR- FELTP1 Comment

Archive, child health, immunization, infectious disease, refugee health

Africa, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, disease surveillance, FELTP, FETP, measles, polio, Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, vaccine-preventable diseases, yellow fever