(Lima, Peru, 20–22 April 2005)

Meeting sponsored by PAHO and three US government agencies:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and
Agency for International Development (USAID)

(Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26–28 February 2004)

Executive Summary

As it is customary, the Third Joint Meeting of the Networks for Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from 26 to 28 February 2004, immediately before the International Emerging Infectious Diseases Meeting (2004), so that participants could take advantage of the latter.

San José, Costa Rica, 7–10 November 2005

Objectives

• Update National Directors of Epidemiology and Malaria Programs in the Americas on the current situation of malaria worldwide and in the Region of the Americas.

(Atlanta, Georgia, 23-24 March 2002)

Rapidly transmitted emerging and reemerging diseases require surveillance systems of great sensitivity that make it possible to act immediately to impede the spread of an outbreak or to control epidemics. In this context, a new paradigm of global collaboration has been established: teamwork through the establishment of surveillance networks.