Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a strategy of the World Health Organization African Regional Office (WHO AFRO). Member States adopted this strategy in 1998.

The goals of IDSR are:

	To strengthen public health surveillance and response to priority infectious diseases at the district level,
	To integrate surveillance with laboratory support, and
	To translate surveillance and laboratory data into specific and timely public health actions.

In an IDSR system, surveillance activities and resources are coordinated and streamlined. A focal person at each level of a health system collects surveillance information on priority infectious diseases, and reports this information to the next level. A country uses this surveillance information as a rational basis to make decisions and to plan public health interventions in response to priority infectious diseases.

	IDSR Implementation
		IDSR Framework
		IDSR Core indicators
		Progress with IDSR implementation 2001 - 2005
	Global IDSR