Entomologic surveillance conducted for arboviral infections in mosquito vectors in the past two years (ref Q28)

Countries that conducted entomologic surveillance included Djibouti, Egypt, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Libya, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen. Countries that did not included Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Territory, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates. Syrian Arab Republic did not respond.

Frequency and scope of entomologic surveillance (ref Q28c, 28d, 28e)

Country	Response	Geographic scope	Comments
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Djibouti	Once a year	Country wide (24 sentinel sites)	24 sites across the country.
Egypt	Periodically monitoring is done	Country wide	Entomological surveillance is implemented in all (27) governorates.
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Biweekly	Country wide (114 sentinel sites)
Iraq	Routine work (Monthly)	Country wide (5 sentinel sites)
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya	Monthly	Restricted to specific locations (10 sentinel sites)	Tripoli Region
Morocco
Oman	Once a year	Restricted to specific locations (11 sentinel sites)	Done in South Sharqiyah, Wusta and Dhofar governorates. Plan is to conduct it in all provinces of Oman.
Pakistan	Routine surveillance throughout the year in province Punjab and other provinces regularly monitored in hot spots in Sindh, Balochistan and AJK	Restricted to specific locations (5 sentinel sites)	5 sites (4 at provinces and 1 at national level). In Punjab vector surveillance at the Union council level is available in each district
Palestinian Territory
Qatar	Every 2 weeks.	Country wide (15 sentinel sites)
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sudan	Monthly	Country wide (107 sentinel sites)	Country wide program through routine sentinel sites
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	Every trimester	Country wide (4 sentinel sites)
United Arab Emirates
Yemen	Passive surveillance on weekly basis through eDEWS	Restricted to specific locations (9 sentinel sites)	Endemic malaria/DF areas in the coastal areas in Western and Southern Part of Yemen.

Performance of adult and larval/pupal mosquito surveillance

Mosquito surveillance and identification (ref Q29, 30, 31)

Country	Adult surveillance	Larval/pupal surveillance	Trapped mosquitoes identified to species
Afghanistan	X
Bahrain	X	X	X
Djibouti	X	X	X
Egypt	X		X
Iran (Islamic Republic of)		X	X
Iraq	X	X	X
Jordan	X	X	X
Kuwait			Not applicable
Lebanon
Libya	X	X	X
Morocco			X
Oman	X	X	X
Pakistan	X	X	X
Palestinian Territory	X	X	X
Qatar	X	X	X
Saudi Arabia	X	X	X
Somalia	X	X	X
Sudan	X	X	X
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	X	X	X
United Arab Emirates	X	X	X
Yemen	X	X	X

Minimum infection rate (MIR) calculations for any Aedes-borne arboviruses (ref Q32)

Country	Response	Comments
Afghanistan	Don’t know
Bahrain	No
Djibouti	No
Egypt
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Yes, our agency makes the MIR estimations
Iraq	No
Jordan	No
Kuwait	No	Aedes aegypti mosquito is not present in Kuwait
Lebanon	No
Libya	No
Morocco	No
Oman	No
Pakistan	No
Palestinian Territory	Yes, our agency makes the MIR estimations
Qatar	No
Saudi Arabia	No
Somalia	Yes, our agency makes the MIR estimations
Sudan	No
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	Yes, our agency makes the MIR estimations
United Arab Emirates	No
Yemen	No

Laboratories testing mosquito pools for arboviruses (ref Q33)

Country	National public health laboratory	University or academic institution	Mosquito surveillance done, but no testing done on mosquito pools	Not applicable (no mosquito surveillance done)	Other
Afghanistan			X
Bahrain			X
Djibouti				X
Egypt
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	X
Iraq			X
Jordan			X
Kuwait				X
Lebanon		X
Libya	X
Morocco			X
Oman	X
Pakistan			X
Palestinian Territory	X
Qatar	X	X
Saudi Arabia					SA CDC
Somalia	X
Sudan			X
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia	X				Institute of Veterinary Research
United Arab Emirates				X
Yemen				X

No countries reported testing at State/provincial/regional public health laboratory, Local health department laboratory, Local MCD (if different from county health dep’t).