IHR News
The WHO quarterly bulletin on IHR implementation
In this issue:
What's new in IHR coordination and support
- Update on external review of the IHR
- 63rd World Health Assembly, 17–21 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
- IHR i–course – update on 1st session
- Updated WHO guidance for the use of Annex 2 of the International Health Regulations
- Assessment tool for core capacity requirements at designated points of entry, ports and ground crossings
- Risk communication working group meeting, 11–12 May 2010, Lyon, France
- IHR Coordination Department activity report 2009
What's new in risk and disease control
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009: Global situation updates
- Polio in Tajikistan: Outbreak response activities continue
- New publications from WHO Global Alert and Response
- Public health measures taken at international borders during early stages of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009: preliminary results
WHAT’S NEW IN THE WHO REGIONS1
- AFRO: Coordination meeting for National IHR Focal Points
- AFRO: Courses in epidemiology in Central Africa
- AMRO-PAHO: Points of entry workshop in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil
- AMRO-PAHO: Regional meeting on IHR implementation
- EMRO: Workshops on monitoring the implementation of IHR core capacities
- SEARO-WPRO: Bi-regional consultation on emerging diseases
Other NEWS
- SHIPSAN TRAINET project
1 The six WHO regional offices: AFRO – Regional Office for Africa; EMRO – Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean; EURO – Regional Office for Europe; PAHO/AMRO – Pan American Sanitary Bureau/Regional Office for the Americas; SEARO – Regional Office for South-East Asia; WPRO – Regional Office for the Western Pacific.