The ECDC disease specific activities are organised within seven horizontal programmes:
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The programme covers diseases caused by antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in the community and in hospitals, as well as all healthcare-associated infections.
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Emerging and Vector-borne Diseases Programme
The programme covers a wide range of vector-borne and travel-related diseases, including: borreliosis, chikungunya, dengue, malaria, plague, Q-fever, rabies, severe acute respiratory syndrome, smallpox, tick-borne encephalitis, viral haemorrhagic fevers, West Nile fever, yellow fever. |
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Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Programme
The programme includes: anthrax, botulism, campylobacteriosis, cholera, echinococcosis, hepatitis A, legionellosis, listeriosis, norovirus infection, salmonellosis, shigellosis, toxoplasmosis, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection, and other diseases. |
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Influenza Programme
The programme covers all aspects of influenza; seasonal influenza, pandemic influenza and avian influenza, influenza vaccination, antivirals and antiviral resistance.
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Sexually Transmitted Infections, including HIV and Blood-borne Viruses Programme
This programme was set up in September 2006. The programme covers Chlamydia infection, gonorrhoea, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV infection and AIDS. |
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Tuberculosis Programme
The programme was set up in 2006 and covers all aspects of Tuberculosis (TB), a disease that remains a threat to human health world wide and in Europe. Despite the fact that the situation concerning TB in the EU has dramatically improved over the past decades, TB is considered a re-emerging disease of European importance. |
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Vaccine Preventable Diseases Programme
The programme covers general issues concerning vaccination and the following diseases: diphtheria, infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B, measles, meningococcal disease, mumps, pertussis, pneumococcal infections.
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