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KAZ-7 [Headquarters]
Status
Active
Title of the centre:
  WHO collaborating centre for plague

Director / Head: 
  Dr Bakyt Atshabar
 




Institution:
 
  Aikimbayev's Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases
Address:
  14 Kapalskaya
  050054
 
Town:
  Almaty
Country:
  KAZAKHSTAN
Region:
  EURO
Phone:
  7 3272 510 293
Fax:
  7 3272 570 641
Web Site:
  www.kscqzd.kz
Date of Designation:
  15/Oct/2009
Last Redesignation:
  15/Oct/2009
Expiry:
  15/Oct/2013
Terms of Reference:
  1. To provide laboratory diagnostic support in confirming & characterizing Yersinia pestis isolates, including antibiotic resistance, at national levels or, through WHO, at international levels. 
  2. To maintain a regional bank of strains. 
  3. To provide Member States with free reference tests at the request of WHO and to provide WHO with the corresponding validation documentation. 
  4. Through WHO to provide consultation on surveillance, control programmes and strategy development for prevention of plague at regional and global levels. 
  5. To train national health workers at regional or global levels in laboratory diagnosis, surveillance and control of human and zoonotic plague. 
  6. To assist WHO in providing support in plague outbreak/epidemic situations at global level and in Central Asia. 
  7. To prepare reports on any plague event as well as annual reports on the epidemiological & epizoological situation of plague in Central Asia. To submit these reports to WHO. 
  8. To submit an annual activity report to WHO.  
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Subjects:
  1. Bacterial diseases other than those specifically mentioned 
  2. Zoonoses 
  3. Communicable diseases other than those specifically mentioned 
Types of activity:
  1. Collection; collation and dissemination of information 
  2. Providing technical advise to WHO 
  3. Development and application of appropriate technology 
WHO organization wide expected result:
  1.7 - Member States and the international community equipped to detect, assess, respond to and cope with major epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases (e.g. influenza, meningitis, yellow fever, haemorrhagic fevers, plague and smallpox) through the development and implementation of tools, methodologies, practices, networks and partnerships for prevention, detection, preparedness and intervention.
 
 
Responsible Officer:
  BERTHERAT Eric Gerard Georges
Phone:
  +41 22 79 14608
Email:
  bertherate@who.int

Technical Counterpart:
  GAVRILIN Evgeniy
Phone:
  +45 39171574
Email:
  gavriline@who.int
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
  Link to eWork