To evaluate Saudi Arabia's infectious disease surveillance system, help train local and regional disease detectives and improve the country's capacity to monitor for and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.
To strengthen laboratory surveillance for pneumococcal meningitis and serotyping in India to understand the impact of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine rollout.
To evaluate the impact of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule change in Mozambique on vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage and invasive pneumococcal disease; and serotype 1 colonization among patients with suspected pneumonia and serotype 1 disease among children and adults.
