This paper describes the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) being deployed in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan under the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) as part of the Threat Agent Detection and Response (TADR) Network. BACKGROUND The TADR Network currently supports the U.S. Government’s (USG) strategy for strengthening Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) compliance through focus on disease surveillance and investigations of suspicious outbreaks of disease in the Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. TADR is a comprehensive approach to achieving the USG’s overall BWC compliance, and consists of several components. EIDSS was developed as an integral part of the human and animal disease surveillance systems to strengthen and support… Read More
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