To improve the understanding of experienced HIV stigma in the community, ECDC initiated an exploratory survey in 2021 to measure HIV-related stigma across Europe and Central Asia.
This evidence brief summarises the progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 to ‘eliminate the epidemic of AIDS’ in Europe and Central Asia.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 3-9 September 2023 and includes updates on measles, MERS, COVID-19, mpox, iatrogenic botulism, echovirus, West Nile virus, dengue, Legionnaire's disease, swine flu, and mass gathering monitoring for the Rugby World Cup 2023.
This document provides an update on the safety of substances of human origin (SoHO) in relation to COVID-19. It reassesses the risk and proposes revised mitigation measures for preventing transmission through SoHO.
Sample size calculation is an essential step in ensuring that analysis of the data which are collected through urveillance systems can support the desired public health objective(s). The main aim of sample size calculations is to determine the sample size needed from the population under study to possibly detect a statistically significant result.