Presence of a community outreach program that also covers arboviral diseases

Community outreach program presence, leadership, and geographic scope (ref Q43, 43b, 43c)

Country	In place	Entity in charge	Scope
Albania	No
Armenia	No
Bosnia and Herzegovina	No
Bulgaria	I don't know
Croatia	Yes	Education and awareness campaigns for the public	Countrywide
France	No
Georgia	Yes	National Center for Disease Control and Public Health	Only selected areas Only in high risk areas.
Germany	No
Greece	Yes	Some Regional and municipal vector control and public health authorities perform communication activities for the public/ community outreach programmes. The National Public Health Organization conducts communication activities for the public, including development and distribution of educational/ informative materials for the public (on personal protection measures against mosquitoes and on West Nile virus infection), press releases (when needed), TV spot on mosquito personal protection measures, and seminars - informative meetings for the public (upon request). In addition, NPHO publishes weekly surveillance reports for West Nile virus infection in humans, during the transmission season.	Countrywide Educational/ informative material for the public is distributed to regional and local authorities nationwide, in order to be further distributed to the local population, and/or uploaded to the local authorities' websites. Press releases (e.g., with the recording of the first WNV disease case in each season), and TV spot are distributed nationwide.
Hungary	Yes	National Public Health Center	Countrywide
Italy	Yes	Local health services.	Only selected areas These activities are promoted by Regional health services.
Malta	No
Monaco	No
Portugal	Yes		Countrywide
Romania	No
San Marino
Slovenia	No
Spain	No
Switzerland	No
Turkey	No

Is the community outreach/social mobilization program sufficiently funded to cover staff time, prevention and outreach activities as needed? (ref Q43d)

Country	Response
Albania
Armenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia	Don't know
France
Georgia	No
Germany
Greece	No
Hungary	No
Italy	Don't know
Malta
Monaco
Portugal	No
Romania
San Marino
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey

Resources needed to ensure adequate community outreach capacity (ref Q43e)

Country	Educational materials for the public	Educational and reference materials for providers	Educational and reference materials for local health departments	Additional staff	Staff training
Croatia	X		X
Georgia	X	X	X		X
Greece				X
Hungary				X
Italy	X	X	X
Portugal	X	X	X	X	X

Regular training sessions for staff in charge of community sensitization, mobilisation and acceptance of interventions dedicated to control arboviral diseases (ref Q45)

Country	Response	Comments
Albania
Armenia	No
Bosnia and Herzegovina	No
Bulgaria	I don't know
Croatia	Yes	Pest control staff regular education anually.
France	I don't know
Georgia	No
Germany	No	not from the national level
Greece	No	Recommendations for communication activities for the public (on mosquito protection measures) are provided to the regional and local public health authorities, and informative material on personal mosquito protection measures is distributed nationwide.
Hungary	No
Italy	Yes	Risk communication is included in the national strategy for arbovirus
Malta	No
Monaco	No	non applicable
Portugal	No
Romania	I don't know
San Marino
Slovenia	No
Spain	No
Switzerland	No
Turkey	No