To keep a close watch on human and animal health in Belgium, Sciensano put up several surveillance networks. Find out about how to participate, which parameters we monitor and our most recent conclusions.
COVID-19 pandemic surveillances
Sciensano has set up various surveillances and data collections to monitor the epidemic situation. The surveillances can roughly be divided into 3 major groups: monitoring the epidemiological situation, contact tracing and surveillance of the vaccines on the market.
Surveillance by health professionals
BCFR | Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry
BEWSD | Belgian Early Warning System on Drugs
BNMDR | Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (BNMDR)
CRRD | Central Rare Disease Registry
CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Registry
EPILABO | sentinel network of laboratories
Hiv-ARL | new hiv diagnoses registry
Hiv-ARC | follow up of hiv seropostive patients
IQED | initiative for quality promotion and epidemiology in diabetes care
IQED-Foot | initiative for quality promotion and epidemiology in multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinics
IQECAD | initiative for quality promotion and epidemiology in children and adolescents with diabetes
MATRA | mandatory notification
NRC | national reference centres
NSIH | national surveillance of infections in health care settings
Pedisurv | paediatric surveillance of infectious diseases
SARI | sentinel network of hospitals
SGP | sentinel general practices
STI | sentinel network of clinicians for the registration of sexually transmitted infections
TDI | Belgian Treatment Demand Indicators
COVID-19 surveillances | COVID-19 surveillances and data collections to monitor the epidemic situation
Citizen surveillance
TickNet | citizen portal to report tick bites in Belgium
SurveillanceMoustiques | citizen portal to notify tiger mosquitoes in Belgium