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2.1 Vision

An Asia Paciic region prepared to miigate the risk and impact of emerging diseases and other public health emergencies through collecive responsibility for public health security. Vision an asia Paciic region prepared to mitigate the risk and impact of emerging diseases and other public health emergencies through collective responsibility for public health security. Objective 1 Reduce risk Objective 2 strengthen early detection Objective 3 strengthen rapid response Objective 4 strengthen efective preparedness Objective 5 build sustainable partnerships Goal To build sustainable national and regional capacities and partnerships to ensure public health security through preparedness planning, prevention, early detection and rapid response to emerging diseases and other public health emergencies. Focus Areas sur veillanc

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ssessmen t and Response sur veillanc e, R isk a ssessmen t and Response labora tories labora tories ZoonosesZoonoses Inf ec tion P re ven tion and C on tr ol Inf ec tion P re ven tion and C on tr ol Risk C ommunic ations Risk C ommunic ations Public H ealth emer genc y Pr epar edness Public H ealth emer genc y Pr epar edness Regional P repar edness , aler t and Response Regional P repar edness , aler t and Response monit oring and e valua tion monit oring and e valua tion Figure 2.1 APSED 2010 vision, goal, objectives and focus areas SECTION 2: Vision, Goal and Objectives 14 STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR WHO TECHNICAL AND COUNTRY WORK: GeTTInG THe RIGHT foCUs

2.2 Goal

To build sustainable naional and regional capaciies and partnerships to ensure public health security through preparedness planning, prevenion, early detecion and rapid response to emerging diseases and other public health emergencies.

2.3 Objectives

To achieve the goal, ive interrelated objecives have been ideniied. • Objecive 1: Reduce the risk of emerging diseases. • Objecive 2: Strengthen early detecion of outbreaks of emerging diseases and public health emergencies. • Objecive 3: Strengthen rapid response to emerging diseases and public health emergencies. • Objecive 4: Strengthen efecive preparedness for emerging diseases and public health emergencies. • Objecive 5: Build sustainable technical collaboraion and partnership in the Asia Paciic region.

2.4 Focus areas

To provide a focus for operaional programme work and to achieve the goal and objecives of the Strategy, the following focus areas have been ideniied: 1 surveillance, risk assessment and response; 2 laboratories; 3 zoonoses; 4 infecion prevenion and control; 5 risk communicaions; 6 public health emergency preparedness; 7 regional preparedness, alert and response; and 8 monitoring and evaluaion. Focus areas 1 to 6 primarily aim at naional and local capacity-building. Focus area 7 addresses strengthened WHO regional preparedness, surveillance, risk assessment and response systems. Focus area 8 refers to the monitoring and evaluaion of APSED 2010 implementaion aciviies at both naional and regional levels.