| Vision and goal |
• Focus on addressing urgent need for managing emerging infectious diseases. |
• Emphasis on collective responsibility for regional health security through addressing both emerging diseases and other acute public health emergencies. |
| Objectives |
• Five interlinked objectives: |
• Five interlinked objectives: |
| → risk reduction |
→ risk reduction |
| → early detection |
→ early detection |
| → rapid response |
→ rapid response |
| → effective preparedness |
→ effective preparedness |
| → partnerships |
→ partnerships |
| Focus areas |
• Five programme areas: |
• Eight focus areas (original 5 + 3 new focus areas): |
| → surveillance and response |
→ public health emergency preparedness (national) |
| → laboratory |
→ regional preparedness, alert and response |
| → zoonoses |
| → infection control |
→ monitoring and evaluation |
| → risk communications |
| Scope |
• Emerging infectious diseases |
• Emerging infectious diseases and beyond |
| Time frame |
• 2006–2010 |
• 2011–2015 |
| Process of development |
• A top-down approach with various assessments and evaluations in supporting implementation and building on lessons from SARS. |
• A bottom-up approach with intensive national and regional consultations and building on lessons from the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic. |
| Approach for implementation |
• A step-by-step approach to ensure the minimum capacity components are in place. |
• Defining a clear vision for each focus area and stages towards the vision. |
| • A standard approach (less flexibility in implementing activities). |
• A non-standard approach (more flexibility in designing and implementing activities). |
| • Focus on more resource-limited countries. |
• Continuing efforts for resource-limited countries, but also full participation of all countries and areas. |
