Rospotrebnadzor Continues to Cooperate with the CSTO to Ensure Biological Security

The Russian Federation is taking significant steps to consolidate the CSTO Member States in countering threats to biological security. This was stated by Anna Popova, Head of Rospotrebnadzor, at the IV meeting of the Coordination Council of authorized bodies of the CSTO Member States on biosecurity in Almaty.

As you may recall, Rospotrebnadzor helped to develop Recommendations on Regulation of Biosecurity of CSTO Member States, adopted at the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow in December 2023.

In addition, Rospotrebnadzor has created a register of specialists for joint work in areas of sanitary and epidemiological emergencies. Currently, the Register includes more than 40 specialists from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

By the end of 2024, two mobile laboratories on the basis of the pneumatic frame module will be transferred to Belarus and Kazakhstan. Support service and maintenance have been provided to the mobile laboratories supplied earlier to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Test systems for diagnosing monkeypox, plague, tularemia, HIV, measles, cholera and other infections, as well as vaccines for preventing plague, cholera and hepatitis B were also donated to the CSTO countries.

Four joint expeditions to plague hotspots in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were conducted this year. 104 specialists from CSTO Member States have been trained in bacteriology, epidemiology and rapid response to outbreaks of dangerous infections.

At Anna Popova's suggestion, the Coordination Council decided to prepare a joint analysis of biological security situation in the CSTO area to submit it to the Organization's structures.