Eurosurveillance - Volume 5, Issue 2, 01 February 2000

AIDS case reporting has been an essential tool for monitoring HIV infection in western Europe. Recent trends in AIDS have been affected by improved antiretroviral treatments that delay HIV disease progression, however, and no longer serve as indicators of

Clinical cases of measles have been reported to the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network (Sentinella) since June 1986 and measles infections have been monitored by the national laboratory notification system since January 1988. These two surveillance syste

The French sentinel network created in 1984 consists of general practitioners from the whole mainland, recruited on a voluntary basis. The members of the network follow up the weekly epidemiological surveillance of 10 health indicators (influenza-like