Region
African Region
Destination Country
Uganda
Key objectives

Launching, strengthening and linking global networks for real-time biosurveillance.

Contribution Area
Surveillance
Destination Entity
Uganda
Source Entity
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC)
Activity
Strengthened foundational indicator- and event-based surveillance systems that are able to detect events of significance for public health, animal health and health security; improved communication and collaboration across sectors and between sub- national, national and international levels of authority regarding surveillance of events of public health significance; improved country and regional capacity to analyze and link data from and between strengthened, real-time surveillance systems, including interoperable, interconnected electronic reporting systems. This can include epidemiologic, clinical, laboratory, environmental testing, product safety and quality, and bioinformatics data; and advancement in fulfilling the core capacity requirements for surveillance in accordance with the IHR and the OIE standards.
Contribution channel
Partner
Implementing partner
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)