Written arbovirus surveillance plans

Surveillance plans and the viruses covered (ref Q6, 6b)

		Aedes-borne viruses covered in plans
Country	Nature of surveillance plans	CHIKV	DENV	YFV	ZIKV	Other arbovirus(es) covereda
Australia	Arbovirus-specific		X		X	Murray Valley Encephalitis
Brunei Darussalam	Within general surveillance guidelines	X	X		X
Cambodia	Arbovirus-specific		X
China	Arbovirus-specific	X	X	X	X
Cook Islands	Arbovirus-specific	X	X		X	All integrated vector control plans, not individual plans
French Polynesia	None
Japan	Arbovirus-specific	X	X	X	X	Japanese encephalitis virus
Kiribati	None
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Arbovirus-specific		X		X
Malaysia	Arbovirus-specific	X	X		X	JEV
Nauru	Arbovirus-specific	X	X		X
Papua New Guinea	None
Philippines	Arbovirus-specific	X	X	X	X	JEV
Singapore	Arbovirus-specific	X	X	X	X
Vanuatu	Within general surveillance guidelines					National Disease Surveillance Guidelines
Viet Nam	Arbovirus-specific		X
aCCHFV = Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus; CHIKV = chikungunya virus; DENV = dengue virus; EEEV = Eastern equine encephalitis virus; MAYV = Mayaro virus; OROV = Oropouche virus; RVFV = Rift Valley fever virus; SFFV = Sand fly fever virus (Naples, Sicilian); TBEV = Tick-borne encephalitis virus; TOSV = Toscana virus; VEEV = Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus; WNV = West Nile virus; YFV = yellow fever virus

National programme for arboviral diseases surveillance (ref Q7)

Australia, China, Kiribati, Viet Nam reported having a specific arbovirus programme, whereas Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Japan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Vanuatu had arboviral disease surveillance integrated into another programme. No programme reported by Nauru.

Training provided to arboviral surveillance staff (ref Q10)

Country	One-time basic traininga	Repeated/continuing basic traininga	One-time advanced trainingb	Repeated/continuing advanced trainingb	None
Australia				X
Brunei Darussalam	X
Cambodia					X
China		X
Cook Islands	X
French Polynesia					X
Japan
Kiribati	X		X		X
Lao People's Democratic Republic		X
Malaysia		X
Nauru					X
Papua New Guinea					X
Philippines		X		X
Singapore		X		X
Vanuatu		X
Viet Nam				X
aData capture and analysis (MS Excel, MS Access, EpiInfo) and/or geographic information systems (GIS)
bStatistical software for data analysis (e.g. STATA, R, SAS, Tableau, etc.) and GIS