The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) organises traineeship once a year, each for a period of five to nine months. ECDC is an EU agency which aims to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases. Applicants may submit one application only. Eligibility criteria Nationals of the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; Have […]
Underdiagnosis and late HIV diagnoses are holding back progress to end AIDS in the European Region
Ahead of World AIDS Day, the latest HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 2024, released by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), shows that since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s, over 2.6 million people have been diagnosed with HIV in the WHO European Region, […]
New increase in cases of childhood hepatitis in Europe
As of Wednesday, 27 April 2022, there are approximately 55 cases reported from across the EU/EEA countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain). Sporadic cases have been reported from other countries around the world (Canada, Israel, Japan, USA). Today ECDC has published its Rapid Risk Assessment – Increase in severe […]
Hepatitis cases in children increase in the UK
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has received information about an increase in cases of acute hepatitis in children in recent weeks in the United Kingdom (UK) and is sharing it internationally to raise awareness among doctors caring for children, in order to determine whether there are similar cases in other countries. In […]
Outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Africa
As of 14 February 2021, four cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), including two deaths, have been reported in the North Kivu province in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as well as seven cases in Guinea, including three deaths. On 7 February 2021, the Minister of Health of the […]