In 2023, significant increases in the number of measles cases and outbreaks were observed globally, including in 40 of the 53 countries of the European region, and in at least ten EU/EEA countries.
Collaboration with countries that have applied to join the EU has been one of ECDC’s strategic priorities since the early years of its establishment, and is endorsed in the Amended ECDC Strategy 2021–2027.
Work Programme 2024 for the EU Initiative on Health Security, which works to set up a regional workforce responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
This document assesses the risk associated with the dissemination of carbapenemase-producing hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) of sequence type (ST) 23 and other STs in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA).
This report presents the available data for describing the current situation regarding HIV prevalence among sex workers, and the efforts being made across Europe and Central Asia towards HIV prevention among this population.
Since its creation in 2004, ECDC has been committed to protecting human health through the prevention and control of communicable diseases and special health issues.