欧洲疾控中心-经合组织对摩尔多瓦进行国家访问，讨论传染病监测问题（英）

Suggested citation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. ECDC country visit to Moldova to discuss surveillance of communicable diseases. 2025 Stockholm: ECDC; 2025. Stockholm, October 2025. ISBN 978-92-9498-834-8 doi: 10.2900/1594443 Catalogue number TQ-01-25-064-EN-N Introduction and background ECDC cooperates with countries under the EU enlargement policy to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC’s work. Under this policy, ECDC has been implementing technical cooperation activities with EU candidate countries and potential candidates, i.e. the Western Balkans and Türkiye [1] aiming, inter alia, to support capacities to implement EU legislation on communicable diseases. Upon request from the national public health authorities of Moldova, as a new EU candidate country, ECDC conducted a technical visit to the country in April 2025 with similar scope, objectives, and methodology as for visits to the Western Balkans and Türkiye. The agenda for the visit was developed jointly with the National Public Health Agency of the Republic of Moldova. During the visit, findings for all areas of surveillance were discussed and the assessment tool was filled out in collaboration with colleagues from the country. The ECDC country visit to Moldova is part of the EU Initiative on Health Security work package on progressive integration of the partner countries in the work of ECDC. Specific objectives The specific objectives of country visits to the EU candidate and potential candidate countries are: • to better understand the existing structures, systems, tools and processes involved in the national surveillance of communicable diseases, as well as any planned changes; • to identify needs, vulnerabilities, strengths and areas for improvement related to the surveillance of communicable diseases, including aspects that might benefit from ECDC’s technical support; • to document the current situation concerning the strengths, vulnerabilities, needs and potential action plans; • to discuss and potentially agree upon next steps, as well as setting priorities for further surveillance activities that ECDC could support with technical guidance and assistance. To help ECDC ensure consistency across country visits and support the follow-up of progress, the same assessment tool for national communicable disease surveillance systems is used throughout [4]. The tool includes eight topics regarded as core areas for successful communicable disease surveillance and control and was used to guide discussions. The insights gained during the assessment mission are used to identify areas where surveillance operations could be further strengthened and areas that would benefit from ECDC’s technical support or guidance. CAPACITY/CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT ECDC country visit to Moldova to discuss surveillance of communicable diseases ECDC Accession Support ECDC AS