Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)

In response to the emergence of severe outbreaks of largely preventable diseases in African countries during the 1990s, the 46 Member States of the WHO African Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) met in Zimbabwe in 1998 to adopt Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) as a comprehensive regional framework for strengthening national public health surveillance and response systems in Africa. In 2006, WHO/AFRO Member States recommended that the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) be implemented using the IDSR framework, especially for strengthening core capacities for surveillance and response.
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