mbds newsletter may to august 2009
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Country coordinators are requested to
develop a new Master Plan for 2011-2016
and Operational Plan for the first 2-year
operational period 2011-2012, to be
presented to the next EB meeting in August2010.
MBDSMekong Basin Disease Surveillance
Newsletter
May to August 2009
MBDS Executive Board MeetingKunming, China (13 August 2009)
Executive Board members and Country
Coordinators or their representatives from
all six MBDS countries participated in the
meeting, along with the MBDS
Coordinating Office and observers from a
number of development and technical
partner organizations.
The Executive Board meeting
commenced with remarks from Prof. Sann
Chan Soeung, Executive Board Chair from
Cambodia, who described progress in each
strategy area over the past year and noted
his overall satisfaction with progress made.
He then handed over the Executive Board
chairmanship to China’s Dr. Wang Liying.
Dr. Wang reviewed the proposed agenda,
made modifications to it, and then solicited
and obtained endorsement by Executive
Board members.
China Country Coordinator Ms. Lu
Guoping presented a comprehensive
report regarding to follow-up from the
special CC meeting in Vientiane (June
2009), detailed progress reports from
countries, by strategy, using the new
MBDS monitoring indicators, results of a
special study of early MBDS country
responses to novel influenza A/H1N1,
conducted by CCs in June-July 2009 and
other presentations from the Regional
Forum (from Guangxi Province, Global
Health and Security Initiative [NTI],Google and INSTEDD)
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Lao PDR offered to host the next Regional Forum and Executive Board meeting in
Lung Prabang, in August 2010. The next Country Coordinator meeting will be in
Beijing in late February or early March 2010. The main task of the CC meeting is to
develop the Master Plan for 2011-2016 and Operational Plan for the first 2-year
operational period 2011-2012, to be submitted to the EB meeting to be held in Laos in
August 2010.
Each country representative shared their experiences concern with disease surveillance
in their countries. Dr. Li Qiongfen of Yunnan CDC presented a report on response to
emergency public health events in Yunnan Province, describing the system for
surveillance and response to a broad range of emergency events. Dr. Kumnuan
Ungchusak, Executive Board member from Thailand then presented lessons learned
from Thailand’s experience to date in responding to the new influenza A/H1N1
pandemic. He described lessons learned in the areas of surveillance, communications
with other countries, relations with the media, and crisis management and encouraged
other MBDS countries to also learn from what he described as Thailand’s
shortcomings in these areas.
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MBDS Regional Forum was organized on 10-12.Aug.2009 at Kunming, China.
MBDS Executive Boards, MBDS Country Coordinators, MBDS Strategy Coordinators and
Development partners are participated.
The main objectives of the forum are to revisit 2008 MBDS Regional Forum summary and
MBDS 7 strategies implementation progress and challenges, to monitoring and evaluation
program for MBDS strategies and to share experiences of A-H1N1 in six member countries
The agreements on response from development partner on emerging infectious diseases in
this region.
MBDS Regional ForumKunming, China (10-12 August 2009)
Content
MBDS EB Meeting 1, 2
MBDS Regional Forum 3
Mukdahan ICT activities 4
MBDS Vietnam progress 4
MBDS Yunnan activities 5
MBDS Guangxi activities 5
MBDS Lao PDR activities 6
MBDS CC Meeting, Vientiane 6
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On 6-7 August, 2009, Change Fusion and
Open Dream together with InSTEDD’s
engineers went to Mukdahan for follow up
the usage of GeoChat project with Khun
Punchawee and Mukdahan’s SRRT. The
result of field visit is the Mukdahan’s SRRT
prefer to use GeoChat as a communication
and reporting tool, but with a much greater
emphasis on follow up.
In the meeting, Mukdahan team also
mentioned about how to set up the cross
border communication and send report via
GeoChat between Mukdahan and
Savannakhet because it will be of helpful to
the surveillance system under MBDS.
For organizing the effective SMS
communication system, they are going to
train each chief of staff in district’s hospitals
as the provincial teams and lead their team
in district’s public health center so they can
train and support themselves in district
level. Current is time to demonstrateGeoChat’s value as a communication tool.
PROGRESS BY MBDS VIETNAM
MBDS An Giang conducted 3 traning courses
from 31 July and 1st and 2nd August 2009.
The first training course is on community
based surveillance for village health workers,
total participants is 30; they have learnt about
case definition of priority diseases and how to
report to higher level. The second and third
training course is for health workers at
district and commune health centers
regarding epidemiology, surveillance and
epidemic investigation, how to analyze and
present data (total participants is 20 and 30,
respectively). An Giang health quarantine
center also had a meeting to strengthen the
capacity at the Tinh Bien International border
gate to review strengs and weakness of the
quarantine activities and how to solve it.
SMS FOR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
PILOT PROJECT IN MUKDAHAN
Dr. Nguyen Dang Vung
Mr. Klaikong Vaidhayakarn
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MBDS YUNNAN
MBDS Yunnan Organization Mechanism
Built on April following by project launch
meeting in Guilin in March. Leading by
Yunnan Health Bureau, Mr. Fu Xin’an, the
project will implement by Yunnan CDC, and
coordination office was set up in CDC. Dr.
Lu Lin, the Director General of YNCDC, is
the team leader.
Yunnan Coordination Office allocated project
budget to cross border sites, total amount is
47,000USD for them to carry out XB
activities in 2009.
Cross Border meeting was held between
Mengla County and Louang Namtha, Laos on
1st April in Mengla County. 30 participants
from both side attended the meeting. The two
sides reviewed the project in 2005-2007, and
discussed the future cooperation on core
diseases surveillance, information sharing and
exchange, emergency response and XBtraining.
Dr. Cheng Chun
MBDS GUANGXI
April 15-18,2009 held in Dongxing City,
monitoring cholera in Vietnam border areas
of technical training courses, training a total
of 88 participants. Including those from
Quang Ninh province and the Mong CaiCDC professionals.
August 5-7, 2009, MBDS Guangxi
Coordinator Dr. Li Huiyang unofficial visit
to Vietnam, Quang Ninh province and
Mong Cai city, the establishment of cross-border co-point communication channel.
Dr. Li Huiyang
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Dr. Nyponh
MBDS LAO PDR
18-19 June 2009 , Xayabouly MBDS Team
conducted training on border disease
surveillance at Kenthao District especially
IHR 2005 . The participants attended from
District health office, District Hospital and
Kenthao border checkpoint staffs. This
activities was one of capacity building ofXayabouly province.
Cross border Meeting between Louang
Namtha province and Meung La District
China to discussion on A/H1N1 and H5N1
outbreak control. This meeting wasorganized in Meung La dirstrict , China.
MBDS CC MEETING
Vientiane (25-25 June 2009)
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