The Comunidade Virtual em Vigilância Sanitária (CVS) is a Virtual Comunity, with communication tools, based on the following concepts:

• Diffusion of the principles, technics and pratices of Health Surveillance on the National System of Health Surveillance;

• Harmonization and diffusion of Health Surveillance information, experiences, technics, and norms on the Federal, states and municipalities levels.

• Create mechanisms to promote the theoretical and practice discussion, developing efforts to conduct to new methods on the Health Surveillance National System.

• Articulation and dissemination on the Health Surveillance field, collaborating for the consolidation of Public Health practices on the Health Unique System and on the building of a society health conscience.

The VC can be used as an information a space for discussion. The VC can be accessed on the WEB on the following link: http://www.comvisa.bvs.br[ [/a> .

The Virtual Comunity has been developing na important contributionon to the Health Surveillance National System management (for example: Sinavisa)

On this presentation we will talk about the experience with Virtual Comunity during this first year of project.