About EuroTB

From January 2008 onwards ECDC and WHO/EURO will jointly assume the coordination of the activities of EuroTB - the dedicated surveillance network for tuberculosis which covered the WHO European Region. ECDC and WHO/EURO have agreed how to share the tasks of managing all the data sent in by the whole network of 53 Member States, including the activities involved in the collection, validation, analysis and dissemination of information and other tasks related to surveillance and monitoring of tuberculosis. 

ECDC and WHO/EURO aim to maintain and further develop the surveillance activities and thereby contribute to the international progress both in the TB epidemiology and laboratory fields. Their teams will continue to assure a rewarding exchange of information and expertise among members of the network. The countries will report to one entry point but the data from the EU and EEA/EFTA network members will be integrated into the European Surveillance System (TESSy), while that of the non-EU network members will be integrated into the WHO/EURO CISID. Both systems will then validate the data and ensure easy data sharing and exchange between both organizations to produce a joint output.  This will avoid double reporting for TB.

Any information which the network members wish to disseminate throughout this network can now be sent to tuberculosis@ecdc.europa.eu. Similarly any comments and suggestions on the network development should be posted to this email-address.

NOTE: Between 1996 and 2007, EuroTB has helped coordinate the surveillance of tuberculosis in the 53 countries of the WHO European Region. In its capacity as WHO Collaborating Centre for the surveillance of tuberculosis in Europe, EuroTB worked closely with WHO/EURO and WHO/HQ in the collection and validation of data for the WHO Global Tuberculosis Control Report. Other activities included the organisation of an annual meeting for the EuroTB network of national tuberculosis contact points and the production of a European report on TB surveillance.  The funding of this project was shared between the European Commission (DG Sanco) and the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (France).

updated: March 2008