The mission of the Communicable Diseases Surveillance (CDS) Programme is to ensure the availability of guidelines for integrated disease surveillance and response. It will provide necessary technical support for strengthening national communicable disease surveillance systems through the implementation of the Regional Strategy for Integrated Disease Surveillance and the International health Regulations. CDS will establish links with national Centres of Excellence (CoE), regional and global networks for disease surveillance thereby participating in global effort for the control of communicable diseases through the International Health regulations (IHR) implementation which will stimulate the IDSR implementation within the region.

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CDS featured publications:

International Health Regulations (2005) Areas of work for implementation	International Health Regulations (2005)	World Health Organization Outbreak Communication Planning Guide