1. MBDS Disease Surveillance
Mekong Basin
Newsletter
May to August 2009
MBDS Executive Board Meeting
Kunming, China (13 August 2009)
Executive Board members and Country China Country Coordinator Ms. Lu
Coordinators or their representatives from Guoping presented a comprehensive
all six MBDS countries participated in the report regarding to follow-up from the
meeting, along with the MBDS special CC meeting in Vientiane (June
Coordinating Office and observers from a 2009), detailed progress reports from
number of development and technical countries, by strategy, using the new
partner organizations. MBDS monitoring indicators, results of a
The Executive Board meeting special study of early MBDS country
commenced with remarks from Prof. Sann responses to novel influenza A/H1N1,
Chan Soeung, Executive Board Chair from conducted by CCs in June-July 2009 and
Cambodia, who described progress in each other presentations from the Regional
strategy area over the past year and noted Forum (from Guangxi Province, Global
his overall satisfaction with progress made. Health and Security Initiative [NTI],
Google and INSTEDD)
He then handed over the Executive Board
chairmanship to China’s Dr. Wang Liying. Country coordinators are requested to
Dr. Wang reviewed the proposed agenda, develop a new Master Plan for 2011-2016
made modifications to it, and then solicited and Operational Plan for the first 2-year
and obtained endorsement by Executive operational period 2011-2012, to be
Board members. presented to the next EB meeting in August
2010.
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2. Lao PDR offered to host the next Regional Forum and Executive Board meeting in
Lung Prabang, in August 2010. The next Country Coordinator meeting will be in
Beijing in late February or early March 2010. The main task of the CC meeting is to
develop the Master Plan for 2011-2016 and Operational Plan for the first 2-year
operational period 2011-2012, to be submitted to the EB meeting to be held in Laos in
August 2010.
Each country representative shared their experiences concern with disease surveillance
in their countries. Dr. Li Qiongfen of Yunnan CDC presented a report on response to
emergency public health events in Yunnan Province, describing the system for
surveillance and response to a broad range of emergency events. Dr. Kumnuan
Ungchusak, Executive Board member from Thailand then presented lessons learned
from Thailand’s experience to date in responding to the new influenza A/H1N1
pandemic. He described lessons learned in the areas of surveillance, communications
with other countries, relations with the media, and crisis management and encouraged
other MBDS countries to also learn from what he described as Thailand’s
shortcomings in these areas.
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3. MBDS Regional Forum
Kunming, China (10-12 August 2009)
MBDS Regional Forum was organized on 10-12.Aug.2009 at Kunming, China.
MBDS Executive Boards, MBDS Country Coordinators, MBDS Strategy Coordinators and
Development partners are participated.
The main objectives of the forum are to revisit 2008 MBDS Regional Forum summary and
MBDS 7 strategies implementation progress and challenges, to monitoring and evaluation
program for MBDS strategies and to share experiences of A-H1N1 in six member countries
The agreements on response from development partner on emerging infectious diseases in
this region.
Content
MBDS EB Meeting 1, 2 MBDS Yunnan activities 5
MBDS Regional Forum 3 MBDS Guangxi activities 5
Mukdahan ICT activities 4 MBDS Lao PDR activities 6
MBDS Vietnam progress 4 MBDS CC Meeting, Vientiane 6
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4. SMS FOR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE PROGRESS BY MBDS VIETNAM
PILOT PROJECT IN MUKDAHAN
MBDS An Giang conducted 3 traning courses
On 6-7 August, 2009, Change Fusion and from 31 July and 1st and 2nd August 2009.
Open Dream together with InSTEDD’s The first training course is on community
engineers went to Mukdahan for follow up based surveillance for village health workers,
the usage of GeoChat project with Khun total participants is 30; they have learnt about
Punchawee and Mukdahan’s SRRT. The case definition of priority diseases and how to
result of field visit is the Mukdahan’s SRRT report to higher level. The second and third
prefer to use GeoChat as a communication training course is for health workers at
and reporting tool, but with a much greater district and commune health centers
emphasis on follow up. regarding epidemiology, surveillance and
In the meeting, Mukdahan team also epidemic investigation, how to analyze and
mentioned about how to set up the cross present data (total participants is 20 and 30,
border communication and send report via respectively). An Giang health quarantine
GeoChat between Mukdahan and center also had a meeting to strengthen the
Savannakhet because it will be of helpful to capacity at the Tinh Bien International border
the surveillance system under MBDS. gate to review strengs and weakness of the
For organizing the effective SMS quarantine activities and how to solve it.
communication system, they are going to
train each chief of staff in district’s hospitals
as the provincial teams and lead their team
in district’s public health center so they can
train and support themselves in district
level. Current is time to demonstrate
GeoChat’s value as a communication tool.
Mr. Klaikong Vaidhayakarn
Dr. Nguyen Dang Vung
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5. MBDS YUNNAN MBDS GUANGXI
MBDS Yunnan Organization Mechanism
Built on April following by project launch
meeting in Guilin in March. Leading by April 15-18,2009 held in Dongxing City,
Yunnan Health Bureau, Mr. Fu Xin’an, the monitoring cholera in Vietnam border areas
project will implement by Yunnan CDC, and of technical training courses, training a total
coordination office was set up in CDC. Dr. of 88 participants. Including those from
Lu Lin, the Director General of YNCDC, is Quang Ninh province and the Mong Cai
CDC professionals.
the team leader.
Yunnan Coordination Office allocated project
budget to cross border sites, total amount is
47,000USD for them to carry out XB
activities in 2009.
Cross Border meeting was held between August 5-7, 2009, MBDS Guangxi
Mengla County and Louang Namtha, Laos on Coordinator Dr. Li Huiyang unofficial visit
1st April in Mengla County. 30 participants to Vietnam, Quang Ninh province and
from both side attended the meeting. The two Mong Cai city, the establishment of cross-
sides reviewed the project in 2005-2007, and border co-point communication channel.
discussed the future cooperation on core
Dr. Li Huiyang
diseases surveillance, information sharing and
exchange, emergency response and XB
training.
Dr. Cheng Chun
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6. MBDS LAO PDR MBDS CC MEETING
Vientiane (25-25 June 2009)
18-19 June 2009 , Xayabouly MBDS Team
conducted training on border disease
surveillance at Kenthao District especially
IHR 2005 . The participants attended from
District health office, District Hospital and
Kenthao border checkpoint staffs. This
activities was one of capacity building of
Xayabouly province.
Cross border Meeting between Louang ©MBDS 2009. All rights reserved
Namtha province and Meung La District Compile and created by: Hnin Pwint Phyu @ Snow
China to discussion on A/H1N1 and H5N1 Produced by: Dr. Moe Ko Oo
outbreak control. This meeting was
organized in Meung La dirstrict , China. MBDS Regional Coordinating Office
c/o Ministry of Public Health
Department of Disease Control
Dr. Nyponh Tiwanond Road, Nonthaburi,11000, Thailand
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