About

 Communicable diseases control and prevention group (CDC group) is one of special groups of Health center of Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi province. Epidemiology and burden of communicable diseases determine responsibility of this group.  Experts of this group must know about distribution of communicable diseases such as sporadic or endemic or outbreaks and get appropriate strategies to prevention and control of them. Experts administrate methods for primary to tertiary prevention.  They try to take to advantage of special knowledge to achieve the health and sanitation of country. These goals are affected by the policies of World health organization (WHO) such as situation diagnosis, control, and elimination of communicable diseases. 

 The main responsibility of the group is to correspond the controlling and preventive programs for illnesses declared by the related ministry with provincial situation and supervising the implementation of the programs. It also tries to create an appropriate situation for promoting job and personal skills for the staff so as to improve the caring programs and also to create a proper situation functional education and research.

The top priorities of the group

-Immunization

-Control and prevention of Diphtheria

-Control and prevention of Tetanus

-Control and prevention of Anthrax

-Control and prevention of Poliomyelitis

-Control and prevention of Measles

-Control and prevention of Rubella and congenital Rubella syndrome

-Control and prevention of Mumps

-Control and prevention of Meningitis  

-Control and prevention of influenza

-Control and prevention of Botulism

-Control and prevention of Diarrhea and Cholera

-Control and prevention of Dysentery 

-Control and prevention of Typhoid

-Control and prevention of HIV/AIDS

-Control and prevention of Sexually transmitted diseases

-Control and prevention of Hepatitis B and C

-Control and prevention of Tuberculosis

-Control and prevention of Leprosy

-Control and prevention of Malaria

-Control and prevention of Pediculosis

-Control and prevention of Leihmaniosis

-Control and prevention of Rabies

-Control and prevention of Brucellosis

-Control and prevention of Hydatid cyst

-Control and prevention  of Relapsing fever

-Control and prevention  of Hemorrhagic fevers

-Control and prevention of Toxoplasmosis disease

-Control and prevention of Anthrax

-Control and prevention of BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)

-Control and prevention of Avian flu