In a single electronic platform, the WHO’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas is
bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for
infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.
The analysis and interpretation of data are further supported through information on
demography, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental factors. In so doing, the
Atlas specifically acknowledges the broad range of determinants that influence
patterns of infectious disease transmission.
Over the next year, the system aims to provide a single point of access to data, reports
and documents on the major diseases of poverty including malaria, HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, the diseases on their way towards eradication and elimination (such as
guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis) and epidemic prone and emerging infections
for example meningitis, cholera, yellow fever and anti-infective drug resistance.
The database will be updated on an ongoing basis and in addition to epidemiological
information, the system aims to provide information on essential support services such
as the network of communicable diseases collaborating centres, the activities of the
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network among others.
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