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Epidemiological Surveillance Network, USA
Contact Information
Contact person: Dr. Paloma Guchi, Regional Adviser on HIV/AIDS
Address: Situation Analysis and Programme Development, c/o WHO/PAHO, 525, 23rd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2895, USA
Phone: (1 202) 974 3486
Fax: (1 202) 974 3643
E-mail: cuchipal@paho.org
Description of services provided:
Members of this network are UNAIDS, PAHO/WHO, HTCG and the Monitoring of the AIDS Pandemic (MAP), as well as UNAIDS collaborating Centres, national epidemiologists, the US Bureau of the Census and the UNICEF Regional Office.
Main mission and areas of work:
- Regional assessments of the epidemic and development of its surveillance systems, including in hard to reach populations
- Strengthening epidemiological surveillance in the context of second and third generation surveillance
- Development of methodologies adapted to the regional and sub-regional contexts
- Strengthening and promotion of epidemiological networks
- Generation and exchange of epidemiological state-of-science methodologies
- Technical cooperation, including horizontal collaboration
Achievements/Publications/Resources:
Main results so far:
- Epidemiological surveillance reports produced and disseminated
- Second generation surveillance implemented and strengthened
- Subregional EpiNetworks created (Andean, Southern Cone and Central America
- Computer software on biostats and epidemiology developed
- Surveillance methodologies developed and programme strengthened Consolidation of the network coordinated by PAHO/WHO
- Epidemiological Fact Sheets for the Latin America and Caribbean region (regional and country-based) produced and disseminated
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