GCTF Training Camps．Dec 27
Under the "Global Cooperation and Training Framework" signed by the CDC and the US CDC in Taiwan and the United States, the three-day "MERS" will be co-operated at the "Disease Control Center for Disease Control" in Tainan City from August 12 (August 12). Inspection and Diagnosis International Workshop." Instructed by the CDC and CDC experts in the United States, the participants included 17 virus testing professionals from 9 countries in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia. It is hoped that through this camp, we will help countries improve their laboratory testing and diagnostic capabilities, meet the basic core competence requirements of the International Health Regulations (2005), and comply with the current Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) actively promoted by the United States. The goal of the action plan is to immediately detect and diagnose emerging infectious diseases such as SARS or MERS, prevent the spread of the epidemic, and maintain global health security.
According to the Department of Disease Control, the training camp is the first cooperation after the "Ebola Anti-epidemic Training Camp" jointly conducted by Taiwan and the United States in March this year. It is also the first training course after the signing of the "Global Cooperation and Training Framework" by Taiwan and the United States on June 1 this year. . The US CDC sent a total of 4 experts to Taiwan to serve as lecturers, including 2 in-hospital infection experts and 2 molecular virus laboratory diagnostic experts; the CDC also arranged 4 colleagues to serve as lecturers. The course design is divided into two parts: classroom teaching and laboratory operation, including infection control, epidemiology and response preparation for MERS and related infectious diseases, laboratory test diagnosis of MERS coronavirus, nucleic acid extraction platform, RT-PCR detection and experiment. Special topics such as room biosafety, as well as practical practice drills for RT-PCR. Some of the reagents for the practical operation of the trainees are provided by the US CDC lecturers.
There are 17 participants in this training, all of whom are senior molecular virus testing professionals from national laboratories in various countries, including 9 countries including Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, and Papua New Guinea. Across the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. Through this training course, in addition to enriching the theory of prevention strategies and improving the testing skills of MERS coronavirus, laboratory professionals from various countries can also exchange learning and experience sharing with each other to establish a network of national laboratories in Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia. Cross-regional cooperation opportunities to effectively improve the combined capacity of infectious diseases in the region.
