Gresham Louise, Ramlawi Assad, Briski Julie, Richardson Mariah, Taylor Terence
Health Security and Epidemiology, Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, DC 20006, USA.
Biosecur Bioterror. 2009 Dec;7(4):399-404. doi: 10.1089/bsp.2009.0034.
Disease surveillance networks in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa are models for the kind of transnational cooperation that can mount the needed flexible and coordinated response to the spread of 2009 H1N1 influenza and future pandemic threats. For example, members of the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS), a regional disease surveillance network of public health experts and ministry of health officials from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan, have coordinated the screening, laboratory testing, and risk communication strategies to detect and control 2009 H1N1 influenza. This coordination is made possible by trust and by well-exercised national and regional pandemic preparedness policies. The consortium illustrates the value of regional disease surveillance networks in shaping and managing cohesive policies on current and future threats. The MECIDS alliance partnership also exemplifies to other parts of the world that are experiencing conflict-like South Asia-that finding common ground is imperative to promoting health security and cooperation where it is most lacking and needed and that developing cohesive infectious disease control policies can build trust across the most difficult boundaries in the world. This article provides an overview of the history of MECIDS and similar networks and of the MECIDS response to 2009 H1N1 influenza.
中东、东南亚和非洲的疾病监测网络是跨国合作的典范，这种合作能够对2009年甲型H1N1流感的传播以及未来的大流行威胁做出所需的灵活且协调一致的应对。例如，中东传染病监测联盟（MECIDS）的成员，该联盟是一个由来自以色列、巴勒斯坦权力机构和约旦的公共卫生专家和卫生部官员组成的区域疾病监测网络，他们协调了筛查、实验室检测以及风险沟通策略，以检测和控制2009年甲型H1N1流感。这种协调是通过信任以及完善的国家和区域大流行防范政策得以实现的。该联盟体现了区域疾病监测网络在制定和管理针对当前及未来威胁的连贯政策方面的价值。MECIDS联盟伙伴关系也向世界其他正在经历冲突的地区——如南亚——表明，在最缺乏和最需要健康安全与合作的地方找到共同点对于促进健康安全与合作至关重要，并且制定连贯的传染病控制政策能够跨越世界上最艰难的界限建立信任。本文概述了MECIDS及类似网络的历史以及MECIDS对2009年甲型H1N1流感的应对措施。
