MBDS Secretariat - Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance

The Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) consortium comprises six participating countries: Cambodia, China (Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces), Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and a growing number of development partners who together seek to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by outbreak-prone diseases in the sub-region. MBDS countries have been working together since 2001to progressively build local capacity, share information, and cooperate in outbreak response and pandemic influenza preparedness ... read more

Vietnam

Land area : 331,691 sq km Population : 84,200,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Paci...
Thailand

Land area : 513,000 sq km Population : 65,200,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Myanmar (Burma)

Land area : 677,000 sq km Population : 51,000,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and S...
Lao PDR

Land area : 237,000 sq km Population : 6,100,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic ...
YUNNAN PROVINCE CHINA

Land area : 394,000 sq km Population : 44,152,000 (2004) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pac...
Cambodia

Land area : 181,035 sq km Population : 14,100,000 (mid-2006) Sources: U.N. Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...

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