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აბა ნახე, ამოვკრიბე საჭირო ინფორმაცია:

Collaboration with European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Georgia has an active collaboration with ECDC and is connected in to three different platforms: 

1.      Georgia is a part of the Epidemic Intelligence Information System for Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses (EPIS-FWD) since 2016, which facilitates the early detection and assessment of multi-country/multinational molecular typing clusters and outbreaks of FWDs. The platform connects epidemiologists and microbiologists from 52 countries: 28 EU Member States, three countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) - Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein - and 21 other non-EU countries;

2. From 2017, National Center for Disease Control and public Health is National Focal Point for ECDC Threat Detection Platform, as an observer. After connection to this platform, NCDC is receiving ECDC epidemic intelligence outputs: the Communicable Diseases Threat Report and the daily Round Table. This collaboration plays an important role in the cooperation between our country and ECDC on epidemic intelligence;

3. In the European Surveillance System (TESSy), Georgia sends data on diseases that are subject to reporting. The system collects data on influenza-like diseases (ILI), Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) and their virological data (seasonally - weekly, non-seasonally - once every 2 weeks). At the same system data on HIV / AIDS are submitted by the Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center and the National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases reports in the same system.

During 11-15 November 2019, a team of ECDC staff and experts from the EU Member States carried out an assessment of Georgia’s public health capacities in the area of communicable diseases. The assessment team visited 40 Institutions at central and regional level. The final recommendations and the technical assessment report were shared with Georgian side.

Visit of ECDC Director to Georgia

On 11-12 July 2019, ECDC Director Ms. Andrea Ammon went on a country visit to Georgia. During this two-day visit, the Director met with First Deputy Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, First Deputy Minister  of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health and had the opportunity to visit both the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, and the R. Lugar Centre for Public Health Research where she met with senior officials. NCDC officials presented information on the work performed in accordance of main strategic directions of the Center. Dr Ammon also made  a presentation on ECDC work and activities.

Georgia participation in the MediPIET regional training programme

Georgia is provided with the great opportunity to participate in the Mediterranean Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (MediPIET). It was an essential opportunity for development and strengthening our capacities of epidemiological surveillance, public health emergency, response system and the scientific field.

The main goals of the project are to strengthen disease surveillance and prevention for countries in the region and to control public health risks through appropriate communications, training, information exchange and technical support; Establishing a network of field epidemiologists to facilitate their mobilization in the event of an outbreak in the transboundary area.

Georgia has been involved in this program since 2015, 31 epidemiologists and public health professionals have enhanced their knowledge by participating in various training modules in external curricula in the 2015-2017 program modules.

In 2017 NCDC was approved as a MediPiet Training Center, which allowed Georgia to have the residents to the program, two sits (places) have been allocated for the country and right now two Georgian young specialists are extending their knowledge within the third MediPIET cohort.

Involvement in MediPIET project is one of the major steps within the Association Agenda between the European Union and Georgia on the concept of development in the Public Health field, implying strengthening preparedness, training and surveillance and control of communicable diseases through inter alia.  

Georgia participation in the MediLubSecure

The EU-funded MediLabSecure project aims to increase health security in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions and enhance preparedness & response to vector-borne diseases by establishing an integrated network of virology and entomology laboratories and public health institutions in nineteen non-EU countries of the region.

Countries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions have common sea borders and, as a result, share common public health issues and threats. The MediLabSecure network includes nineteen non-EU partner countries of these regions, to collaboratively address public health-related national needs.

MediLabSecure objectives are to minimize public health risks through communication, training, information exchange and technical support to- and among- countries in the region. Through its activities, it promotes knowledge development and technology transfer, by means of hands-on trainings, scientific lectures and roll-out of protocols and reagents to improve and harmonize diagnostic capacities, while optimizing bio risk management and best laboratory practices.

Project is coordinated by four European partner institutes: Laboratory for urgent response to biological threats, Pasteur Institute (Paris, France); Animal Health Research Center (Madrid, Spain); French National Research institute for sustainable development (Montpellier, France); National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance & Health Promotion (Rome Italy).

Initial project lasted 2014-2018 and was extended as a new phase of MediLabSecure (MLS) from 2019 till 2021. Project rotates around the interactions between four working groups: human virology, animal virology, medical & veterinary entomology and public health. Each group focusing on one discipline, while maintaining a One Health approach to ultimately promote integrated surveillance of emerging and re-emerging arthropod-transmitted viruses in the beneficiary countries.

National Center for Disease Control and public health was involved in three working groups of the project from very beginning. We are part of almost all activities conducted in the frame of the project.

With involvement in the MediLabSecure project, Georgia together with other 18 beneficiary countries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions is better prepared to face health threats and control emerging viral diseases in the region.

მოგესალმებით,

გიგზავნით საგარეო საქმეთა სამინისტოდან მიღებულ მეილს, რომელიც ეხება 28-29 სექტემბერს საქართველოს პრემიერ-მინისტრის დაგეგმილ ვიზიტს ბრიუსელში, ევროკავშირის ინსტიტუციების მაღალი რანგის ხელმძღვანელებთან შეხვედრების მიზნით.

გთხოვთ, 14 სექტემბრისთვის მოგვაწოდოთ ინფორმაცია ინგლისურ ენაზე საქართველო-ევროკავშირის თანამშრომლობის თაობზე, კერძოდ შრომითი მიგრაცის, ინტეგრაციის, COVID პანდემიაზე რეაგირებისა და DCFTA-ის შესრულების მიმართულებით.

დანართის სახით წარმოდგენილია საგარეო საქმეთა სამინისტროს წერილს და იმ ევროკომისრების ჩამონათვალს, ვისთანაც დაიგეგმა ან მიმდინარეობს პრემიერის შეხვედრების დაგეგმვა.

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მოგესალმებით,

გაცნობებთ, რომ ა.წ. 28-29 სექტემბერს იგეგმება პრემიერ-მინისტრის გიორგი გახარიას ვიზიტი ბრიუსელში, სადაც ის შეხვედრებს გამართავს ევროკავშირის ინსტიტუციების მაღალი რანგის ხელმძღვანელ პირებთან.

შესაბამისად, გიგზავნით ჩვენს ოფიციალურ წერილს სასაუბროს თხოვნით და ასევე იმ ევროკომისრების ჩამონათვალს, ვისთანაც დაიგეგმა ან მიმდინარეობს პრემიერის შეხვედრების დაგეგმვა.

გამომდინარე იქიდან, რომ პრემიერის ადმინისტრაცია უკვე ითხოვს ჩვენგან სასაუბროების პაკეტს, გთხოვთ, მომდევნო კვირის დასაწყისში, არაუგვიანეს, სამშაბათისა, მოგვაწოდოთ საქმიანი/პრაქტიკული სასაუბრო გზავნილები საქართველო-ევროკავშირის თანამშრომლობის მიმართულებებზე, თქვენი კომპეტენციების მიხედვით.

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