On 12 October, Dr. Andrea Ammon attended the Health Service Executive (HSE), Health Protection Conference to celebrate the first year of the Irish HSE Health Protection Strategy 2022-2027.
Outsourced microbiological support to hospital-based surveillance of CDI aims to increase the capacity of laboratories in EU/EEA Member States to perform diagnostic practices with high diagnostic accuracy and acquire comparable typing data from C. difficile isolates.
Healthcare-associated infections are infections acquired by patients during their stay in a hospital or another healthcare setting. More than 3.5 million cases of HAI are estimated to occur in the EU/EEA each year.
On 15 September 2023, Dr. Andrea Ammon attended the High Level Meeting on "HIV and Human Rights: political action to achieve zero stigma" which took place in Seville.
The programme is coordinated by the ECDC, the other members of the scientific coordination team are based in seven institutes in EU. View list of members and contact details.