Sixty-third Regional Committee for Europe: Çeşme Izmir, 16–19 September 2013: resolution: regional framework for surveillance and control of invasive mosquito vectors and re-emerging vector-borne diseases

W ORL D H E A LT H O RG A N I Z AT IO N R EG I ON A L O F F I C E FO R EU R O P E UN City, Marmorvej 51, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Telephone: +45 45 33 70 00 Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 Email: governance@euro.who.int Web: http://www.euro.who.int/en/who-we-are/governance Regional Committee for Europe EUR/RC63/R6 Sixty-third session Çeşme Izmir, Turkey, 16–19 September 2013 18 September 2013 132210 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Resolution Regional framework for surveillance and control of invasive mosquito vectors and re-emerging vector-borne diseases The Regional Committee, Taking note of the global spread of Aedes albopictus, Ae. aegypti and Culex mosquito species, which are effective vectors of potentially severe diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and West Nile fevers; Recognizing a worrying trend in the increase of the geographic distribution of the population of Ae. albopictus, Ae. aegypti and Culex mosquito species and the number of reported indigenous cases and outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya and West Nile fevers in the WHO European Region over the past decade; 1. SUPPORTS the Regional framework for surveillance and control of invasive mosquito vectors and re-emerging vector-borne diseases; 2. CALLS on Members States1 3. REQUESTS the Regional Director; at greater risk to use the Regional framework as guidance for the development of national action plans; (a) to further develop partnerships and coordinate disease risk assessment and vector control in the WHO European Region; (b) to report to the Regional Committee at its sixty-eighth session on the progress made in countries using the Regional framework. 1 And regional economic integration organizations, where applicable