This issue of the CDTR covers the period 18-24 December 2022 and includes updates on chikungunya, cholera, COVID-19, dengue, C. diphtheriae, Ebola, influenza A(H5N1), Influenza A(H9N2), mass gathering monitoring, Mpox, swine influenza.
This issue of the CDTR covers the period 27 November – 3 December 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola, diphtheria, respiratory syncytial virus, seasonal influenza, monkeypox, mass gathering monitoring at the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar, Chikungunya, dengue, Shigella sonnei, poliomyelitis, meningitis, cholera.
In 2023 and until the beginning of December, over 5 million cases and over 5 000 dengue-related deaths have been reported from 86 countries/territories globally.
You may already know about PrEP - the pill one takes to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV. But did you know there is also PEP - the post-exposure prophylaxis - that is used after one may have been exposed to the HIV virus.
This report is the latest in a series published jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe that has been reporting data on HIV and AIDS in the WHO European Region and in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) since 2007.
By 2021, 48 of 55 countries in Europe and Central Asia provided data on at least one stage of the continuum of HIV care (compared to 40 countries in 2018). A total of 47 countries were able to provide data for at least two consecutive stages of the continuum (compared to 45 in 2020) and 40 countries provided data on all four stages.