GMS-CDC

The Regional Coordination Unit (RCU) of the ADB Greater Mekong Sub-region Communicable Diseases Control project (GMS CDC), together with Kenan Institute Asia (KIAsia)/United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Health of Cambodia co-organized the "Second Workshop on Cross-border Collaboration in Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response among Cambodia, China PR, Lao PDR and Vietnam" in Siem Reap/Cambodia on 17-19 February, 2009. It is at this workshop that the participants developed their respective 3-year cross-border collaboration plans from which this “Menu of the Priorities, Key Actions and Activities for Cross-border Collaboration on Communicable diseases Surveillance and Response at 5 Cross-border Sites of Cambodia, China, Lao PDR and Vietnam“ is extracted.

The event was hosted and organized in Quang Tri province (Vietnam) by the Border health Quarantine Division of the General Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Vietnam Ministry of Health with the financial and technical assistance from the Kenan Institute Asia and  the Regional Coordination Unit of the ADB GMS CDC Project.

The purpose of the exercise was to assess the feasibility of plans and procedures to manage cross-border coordination and communication.

Status of the Cross-Border Collaboration activities

Main outputs from both the [ADB/KIA co-sponsored] First and Second Cross-Border Workshops, respectively in Danang and Siem Reap: the four countries (CLV+China) have agreed for cross-border site-specific 3-year action plans taking into consideration the following framework and parameters:

A Sub-Regional Workshop on Cross-border Collaboration in Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response in Danang, Vietnam.

A three-day Sub-Regional Workshop on Cross-border Collaboration in Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response has successfully ended in Danang, Vietnam, on 10 April 2008. In a coordinated effort, the event was co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute Asia (KIAsia) and the regional Pooled Fund of the ADB GMS CDC Project, and was organized and hosted by the Vietnam Ministry of Health. H.E. Prof. Dr. Trinh Quan Huan, Vice-Minister of Health of Vietnam, opened the workshop on 8 April 2008.

Over 80 participants from Cambodia, China, Lao PDR and Vietnam, as well as representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), ACMECS, the Mekong Basin Diseases Surveillance (MBDS) initiative, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Crescent (IFRC), USAID, Pasteur Institute, etc. and consultants from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) attended the event.