A week-long meeting of laboratory health professionals on surveillance techniques for communicable diseases in the region, will open today in Noumea.
The meeting of the Pacific Public Health Laboratory Network, a service of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network, aimed at improving communicable disease prevention and control, is organised by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, or SPC.
It will discuss lab testing and specimen procedures that identify and control epidemic diseases, such as dengue, influenza and HIV.
It will also focus on planning further developments of the network, such as pandemic influenza preparedness.
