Communicable Diseases

What are communicable diseases caused by?

Microorganisms that can be transmitted from one person to another

What are infectious diseases?

pathogenic microorganism such as the bacteria, virus, or fungi that gets into the body causes a disease but cannot be spread from person to person

What are contagious diseases?

disease is communicable and can be spread by contact with the person who has it

Why are all contagious diseases are infectious, but not all infectious are contagious

Certain diseases cannot be transferred from person to person

Why is addressing communicable diseases important?

• Population continuously grows and move

• Microbes adapt

• Public health risks increases

• Diseases travel fast

• Health security is at stake

What is RA 3573?

Law on reporting of notifiable/reportable diseases

What is RA 4073

Law liberalizing the treatment of leprosy

What is Ministry Circular No. 2 Series 1986

Included AIDS among the notifiable diseases

What is AO No. 2005 - 0023

Implementing guidelines for Formula One for Health as Framework for health reforms - disease surveillance shall be intensified

What is Department Personnel Order No. 2005-1585

Creation of management committee on prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

What is AO No. 2007 - 0036

Guidelines on the Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Framework

Immediately Notifiable Disease/Syndrome/ Event should be reported when?

Within 24 hours

Immediately Notifiable Disease/Syndrome/ Event: Acute Flaccid Paralysis

• Anthrax

• Measles

• Neonatal Tetanus

• Rabies

• Outbreaks

• Unusual Diseases

Immediately Notifiable Disease/Syndrome/ Event: Adverse Event following Immunization

• Human Avian Influenza

• Meningococcal disease

• Paralytic shellfish poisoning

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome

• Clusters of diseases

Weekly Notifiable Disease syndrome: Acute Body Diarrhea

• Acute encephalitis syndrome

• Acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome

• Acute viral hepatitis

• Bacterial meningitis

• Cholera

• Dengue

Weekly Notifiable Disease syndrome: Diphtheria

• Influenza-like illness

• Leptospirosis

• Malaria

• Non-neonatal tetanus

• Pertussis

• Typhoid & Non-paratyphoid Fever

Immediate Reporting Upon Laboratory Confirmation

• Poliomyelitis

• Cholera

• Measles

• HIV/AIDS (HIV Registry)

• COVID-19 is considered a nationally notifiable disease

What is the other name of RA 11332

Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act

What is RA11332

An Act Providing Policies and Prescribing Procedures on Surveillance and Response to Notifiable Diseases, Epidemics, and Health Events of Public Health Concern, and Appropriating Funds

What Purpose Act did RA11332 repeal?

Purpose Act No. 3573 — Law on Reporting of Communicable Diseases

What is a notifiable disease

Disease that must be reported to the public health authorities