欧洲疾控中心-ECDC对波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那进行国别访问，讨论传染病监测问题（英）

Suggested citation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. ECDC country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina to discuss surveillance of communicable diseases. Stockholm: ECDC; 2025. ISBN 978-92-9498-814-0; DOI 10.2900/4539730; TQ-01-25-044-EN-N © European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2025. Introduction The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is cooperating with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce in order to prepare them for their future participation in the Centre’s work. Through its technical cooperation with the Western Balkans and Türkiye [1] ECDC aims to support their capacity to implement EU rules on communicable diseases, improve the ‘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’s European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) [2] under the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) [3]. The project is structured around three technical work streams. Work Stream 1 encompasses preparatory measures to enable IPA beneficiaries to enhance communicable disease surveillance and control capacities, improve health emergency preparedness and support public health laboratory systems development [1]. This will enable national health authorities to fulfil ECDC prerequisites for disease data submission at the minimum level required by the EU. The expected results of this stream are: • enhanced EU-level data so that communicable disease surveillance data are more comparable, timely and reliable; • long-term expansion of ECDC scientific and surveillance outputs, covering a broader geographical area within Europe that includes the Western Balkans and Türkiye; and • improved response to public health threats from infectious diseases at the national level, with early detection of and response to serious cross-border threats at EU level. In the context of Work Stream 1, ECDC conducted a technical visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina to obtain additional information on the country’s national surveillance system, including its operation and governance. The aim of this initiative was to provide ECDC with a comprehensive overview of the needs, vulnerabilities and strengths of the surveillance system. To help ECDC ensure consistency of the visit and follow-up of progress, an assessment tool was used [4]. This tool included eight topics seen as core areas for successful communicable disease surveillance and control which were used as guide for discussion. The insights gained within the assessment mission were used to identify areas where surveillance operations could be further strengthened, and other aspects that could benefit from ECDC’s technical support or guidance. ECDC country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina to discuss surv