Description
Since 1999, the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network (MBDS) has
worked cooperatively across national borders to improve disease surveillance
and control in the Mekong Basin area of Southeast Asia. In 2007, a permanent
memorandum of understanding was signed by MBDS health ministries. MBDS
currently works to implement seven core strategies: maintain and expand crossborder
cooperation, improve the human-animal sector interface and strengthen
community-based surveillance, strengthen epidemiology capacity, strengthen
laboratory capacity, strengthen information and communications technologies
capacity, strengthen risk communication, and conduct and apply policy
research.
Purpose
Reduce morbidity caused by outbreak-prone priority diseases by strengthening
national and sub-regional capabilities in infectious disease surveillance and
outbreak response to rapidly and effectively control them.
Scope Regional - Includes Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan and Gianxi Provinces of
China, Myanmar, and Vietnam
Primary Funders
The Rockefeller Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative's (NTI) Global Health and
Security Initiative (GHSI), WHO, CDC, Google.org
Participants & Key Collaborators
Ministries of Health for MBDS members, United Nations System Influenza
Coordination (UNSIC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
Kenan Institute Asia, The RAND Corporation, Asian Development Bank (ADB),
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Definition of One Health
None
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy
MBDS has an action plan for 2008-2013. Within this action plan are specific
and measurable goals, indicators for measuring success, and a simplified
monitoring and evaluation strategy for each of MBDS's core strategies.
Sources of Information
MBDS Website: http://mbdsoffice.com/index_2008.php
MBDS Action Plan: http://www.ghsi.org/downloads/MBDS_Action_Plan.pdf
Contact Dr. Moe Ko Oo
MBDS Coordinator
