Under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR (2005) all States Parties are required to have or to develop minimum core public health capacities to implement the IHR (2005) effectively. Until 2016 The IHR monitoring process, involved assessing, through a self-assessment questionnaire sent to States Parties, the implementation status of 13 core capacities. Data from 2016 show that States Parties are making good progress on a number of core capacities, notably in the areas of zoonotic diseases, surveillance, response, coordination, laboratory, risk communication, legislation policy, and Food safety.

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