infectious disease [ bacterial disease | cholera | communicable disease | contagious disease | leprosy | malaria | parasitic disease | sleeping sickness | trypanosomiasis | tuberculosis | viral disease | viral diseases | yellow fever ]

compile communicable disease control policies | develop communicable disease control policy | develop communicable disease control policies | developing communicable disease control policy

blood-borne disease

Division of Communicable Diseases

Network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the Community

Programme of Community action on the prevention of AIDS and certain other communicable diseases

zoonotic illness | zoonotic illnesses | zoönoses | zoonotic diseases

sexually transmitted disease

food borne bacteria | foodborne disease | a foodborne disease | foodborne diseases

illness [ disease | human disease(GEMET) ]

Outbreaks of communicable diseases extending to more than one Member State of the Community.2. Spatial or temporal clustering of cases of disease of a similar type, if pathogenic agents are a possible cause and there is a risk of propagation between Member States within the Community.3. Spatial or temporal clustering of cases of a similar type outside the Community, if pathogenic agents are a possible cause and there is a risk of propagation to the Community.4. The appearance or resurgence of a communicable disease or an infectious ag ...[+++]ent which may require timely coordinated Community action to contain it.

Health || Reduce child mortality, maternal mortality and ensure universal sexual and reproductive health and rights Could include infant and maternal mortality, adolescent fertility and access to family planning || Reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases Could include the main communicable and non-communicable diseases || Achieve effective and equitable universal coverage with quality health services for all including for vulnerable people, such as persons with disabilities or older people Could include health promotion, preventive services, treatment and rehabilitation and availability and quality of health workf ...[+++]orce || Ensure that no-one is pushed into extreme poverty or remains there because of expenditure on health care Could include impoverishment due to out of pocket payments || ||

When on imperative grounds of urgency the normal time-limits for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny cannot be complied with, the Commission should be able to have recourse to the urgency procedure provided for in Article 5a(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC for the adoption of decisions determining the communicable diseases, the criteria for the selection of those diseases and the epidemiological and microbiological surveillance methods, as well as for the amendments to the Annex to Decision No 2119/98/EC containing the list of categories of communicable diseases.

The process of evaluation of organ suitability is a multiphase event, focused on a) the definition of acceptable-unacceptable risk of transmission of infectious or neoplastic diseases and b) the establishment of practical steps for the risk evaluation process, considering in the single case the transmittable disease, the specific conditions of the recipient with respect to the transmittable disease, the available means of prevention and the treatment of the disease.