ECDC country visit to Serbia to discuss surveillance of communicable diseases

ECDC cooperates with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC’s work.

Technical cooperation with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye [1] aims, in particular, to support capacities 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].