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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. seCTIon 3: foCUs aReas and aCTIons 15 This secion describes each focus area, including its key components and proposed strategic acions that should be implemented for systemaic capacity-strengthening. Table 3.1 APSED 2010 focus areas and key components Focus area Key components

1. Surveillance, risk assessment and

response ƒ Event-based surveillance ƒ Indicator-based surveillance ƒ Risk assessment capacity ƒ Rapid response capacity ƒ Field epidemiology training

2. Laboratories

ƒ Accurate laboratory diagnosis ƒ Laboratory support for surveillance and response ƒ Coordination and laboratory networking ƒ Biosafety

3. Zoonoses

ƒ Coordination mechanism for: { sharing of surveillance information { coordinated response { risk reduction { research

4. Infection prevention and control

ƒ National infection prevention and control IPC structure ƒ IPC policy and technical guidelines ƒ Enabling environment e.g. facilities, equipment and supplies ƒ Supporting compliance with IPC practices

5. Risk communications

ƒ Health emergency communications ƒ Operation communications ƒ Behaviour change communications

6. Public health emergency

preparedness ƒ Public health emergency planning ƒ National IHR Focal Point functions ƒ Points-of-entry preparedness ƒ Response logistics ƒ Clinical case management ƒ Health care facility preparedness and response

7. Regional preparedness, alert and

response ƒ Regional surveillance and risk assessment ƒ Regional information-sharing system ƒ Regional preparedness and response

8. Monitoring and evaluation

ƒ Country-level monitoring including workplan and APSEDIHR indicators ƒ Regional-level monitoring: Technical Advisory Group ƒ Evaluation SECTION 3: Focus Areas and Actions